Advent Blog

Tag: #worldsoilday

  • Dirt

    Dear Darling, Dirty Dirt – The other day I watched a worm.  It made its way across my path –- seeming to sprint a worm’s sprint, stretching, contracting, then reaching again –- on its way to you.  A worm’s way of running into the arms of the one it loves.   And I have to admit,…

  • Soul Soil

    “Soil is everything.”  Thus declared my niece as our family gathered to celebrate the harvest season at Thanksgiving this year.  And she should know, as a newly minted environmental scientist, having just graduated this month from the University of Maryland.  Proud Auntie aside, I found that her statement got me thinking a lot about a…