Nature’s First Green, Afforded by the Recent Rain

Nature’s First Green, Afforded by the Recent Rain The world has become gold green in Napa; the sunrise, magical; the grass so green it hurts your eyes. The drought persists, however. We are not seduced by the greening. This week we will post a series of interviews with Suscol Intertribal Counsel’s Charlie Toledo, who has… Read more »

Is Nature’s Last Hue Gold, too?

Is Nature’s Last Hue Gold, too? This season the gold is what draws you in, like that first gold of spring. But now, with the veil thinning between worlds, the gold takes us down, especially today. It’s been there all summer, that gold, maybe even ever since Frost proclaimed nature’s first green is gold!  Is it… Read more »

Nature’s First Green

This time of year is intensely green in northern California. The hills are verdant, the forest, gold (Nature’s first green…). Psychologist Carl Jung says the alchemical benedicta viriditas, the blessed greenness, is “the sacred immanence of the divine spirit of life in all things”. A walk in the forests or the green hills of Napa… Read more »