Tag Archives: nature

A Walk in the Woods

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Callen Harty

Today was a perfect day for a spring walk. It was about 60 degrees in Wisconsin and sunny a day before we’re scheduled to be under the threat of rain for the rest of the week. Last year, due to … Continue reading →

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The Promise of Spring

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Callen Harty

It was a beautiful day today with snow and ice melting, water rushing in the gutters, geese squawking as they flew overhead, songbirds singing, and the smell of spring in the air. While I know it’s still February and winter … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Prayer

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Callen Harty

It seemed like virtually everyone in America was eagerly anticipating bringing in the New Year last night. The bulk of the year was taken up with the worst plague in modern history, More than 1.8 million people died worldwide from … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Monuments

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Callen Harty

Today is the traditional Columbus Day holiday, which in many places is now being celebrated as Indigenous People’s Day or Native American Day, among other names. For years, Christopher Columbus was celebrated as the person who “discovered” America. The reality … Continue reading →

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Isolation 2

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Callen Harty

When I was a boy I could easily spend hours in my bedroom by myself, playing games with my toy cars. I wouldn’t race them on orange tracks with loop de loops or push them across the floor as fast … Continue reading →

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#SurvivorLoveLetter

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Callen Harty

To the boy that is me, You and me, we are not so different, even with so many intervening years separating us. We are fighters, stubborn, curious, seekers of justice, too trusting sometimes, lovers of nature, smart, naïve, innocent. We … Continue reading →

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A Haircut

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Callen Harty

Tonight I got my hair cut and it triggered a rush of memories and good feelings. Perhaps it had never occurred to me before that triggers can be good as well as bad. The sound of the clippers and the … Continue reading →

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This is Where . . .

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Callen Harty

This is where I find my god–in the woods and the prairies, in the birds and the flowers all around me; in the bowing grasses and wind-bent trees that surround me; in the rivers and streams that never cease; in … Continue reading →

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Cradle to Cradle

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Callen Harty

Some people never live long enough to get old. Others who do live to old age live a little slower physically but with their full mental capacity until the day they depart this realm. For many, though, they fit the … Continue reading →

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Living in Peace

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Callen Harty

Nature has always been where I find my peace. So when I look for peace in a violent world and I look to nature I am greeted with the fact that the rest of nature is as violent as the … Continue reading →

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Dragonfly

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Callen Harty

When life’s burdens befall me I always turn to nature. It is there that I find inner peace in the peaceful surroundings of woods, ponds, marshes, and more. It is there that I learn lessons about patience, the true meaning … Continue reading →

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Something Larger

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Callen Harty

Years ago when I first stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon I could not help but be struck by the realization of my own smallness in the world. The existential and agnostic aspects of my personality could easily take something like … Continue reading →

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