Wonder Archives - Poetic Earth Month

art gallery: crimson & gold eggs

2023-04-13 By L.L. Barkat Filed Under: Art Gallery, Articles, Beauty, Photography, Top 4 Featured, Wonder

Visit the art gallery and enjoy these beautiful painted eggs (using natural dyes), on a vintage gold plate.

20 Great Environment Quotes to Love

2022-07-28 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Books, Earth Care, Poems, Top 4 Featured, Transcendence, Wonder

You can find all of these great environment quotes in context in Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience. Or you can enjoy them right here.

art gallery: jewelweed

2022-07-25 By L.L. Barkat Filed Under: Art Gallery, Awe, Beauty, Flowers, Meditative, Photography, Plants, Wonder

Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and let the Jewelweed sing to you, sparkling with dew beside the red maples and the firs.

The Breath of the Woods

2022-04-14 By Hellen Keller Filed Under: Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Birds, Childhood Memories, Education, Flowers, Gratitude, Homeschooling, Hope, Kindness, Meditative, Nature Stories, Peace, Personal Change, Plants, Seasons, Secret Places, Transcendence, Trees, Water, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods, Young Voices

excerpted from chapter seven of The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller. The book was first written in 1902 in magazine form, while she was in college, at the age of 22 For a long time I had no regular lessons. Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed […]

Beaches in Bottles: The Natural World of Tiffani Rushford

2021-04-23 By Sonia Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Birds, Earth Care, Education, Sea, Wonder, Young Voices

From dreams of Belize to birding on Long Island beaches, from Costa Rica to Sweetbriar Nature Center, Tiffani Rushford inspires!

Dancing in the Arctic

2020-10-12 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Beauty, Climate, Dance, Icebergs, Ocean, Sea, Transcendence, Videos, Wonder

Jody Sperling danced in the Arctic while accompanying a scientific mission studying the effects of melting ice, then choreographed a dance based on her experience.

Seeds: Re Generation – a Dance of Restoration

2020-10-12 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Abundance, Agriculture, Beauty, Climate, Dance, Food, Transcendence, Videos, Wonder

“Seeds Re Generation” by Indigenous dance group Dancing Earth is an inspiring work focused on restoring and re-storying.

5° – A Dance About Global Warming

2020-10-12 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Beauty, Cities, Climate, Dance, Transcendence, Videos, Wonder

Twisted Feet Dance Company creates a frenetic, unsettlingly gorgeous experience in their 2015 climate breakdown dance 5°.

Glacier: Climate Ballet

2020-10-12 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Beauty, Climate, Dance, Icebergs, Transcendence, Videos, Wonder

Watch this moving ballet about the effects of climate breakdown on glaciers. Choreographed by Diana Movius, performed by MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet.

Winter Stars

2020-10-12 By Sonia Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Books, Climate, Ecological Grief, Education, Fairy Tales, Impact, Nature Stories, Plays, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods

Winter Stars is a mythic tragedy that draws from Celtic lore, to tenderly explore climate breakdown through the relationship of two tussling brothers who, yet, love one another deeply: the Holly King and the Oak King.