The “what good?” question is misguided. It defines “good” in terms of human interests and commodifies nature,
Tim Van DeelenJune 9, 2022
Turns out sloth and stubbornness are earthkeeping virtues here. All we need is the courage to do nothing.
Tim Van DeelenMay 12, 2022
This is the big show. The players are arriving, and the curtain is rising. I’m a recent adult-onset birder, but…
Tim Van DeelenApril 28, 2022
Easter is simultaneously the most earthy and transcendent moment of Christianity. What I cannot reconcile is our cavalier attitude toward…
Tim Van DeelenApril 14, 2022
Deer suffer and die in the spring. The graceful movement sputters and stops. The liquid limbs grow cold and stiff.
Tim Van DeelenMarch 31, 2022
Faith-driven earthkeeping requires you to exercise your civic-life agency – your voting, the issues you pay attention to, the environmental…
Tim Van DeelenMarch 17, 2022
We leave our memories in the landscape. Here we step into history and invite it to absorb our grief –…
Tim Van DeelenMarch 3, 2022
They’re not rats, despite being burdened with an English name that invites dismissal, even contempt. Muskrats are are ecosystem engineers,…
Tim Van DeelenFebruary 17, 2022
Amanda Gorman spoke with the gravity of 300 years of dignity that refused to be diminished by pain. She not…
Tim Van DeelenJanuary 20, 2022
