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		<title>Elegant Stillness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love photographing herons. Their elegant stillness is contagious and I lose myself in the breathless awareness they embody. This great blue heron was fishing in the ocean yesterday morning just outside my window. I sat with him for an hour, occasionally photographing him, mimicking his waiting for just the right moment.]]></description>
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		<title>Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 07:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swan Lake in Saanich, British Columbia is part of an amazing wildlife refuge: The Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary. The urban wetland that includes Swan Lake provides a lush habitat for a wide variety of birds and small animals, including turtles, muskrat, river otter and mink. In addition to the hiking trails around the lake, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tortuous Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 19:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tortuous Path I love the taste of pure water and I recently researched water purifiers to find the best one for my home. During my search, I ran across a method of water purification that struck me as a good explanation of why it is necessary for our lives to take the twists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What was said . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love springtime conversations with Nature; they are so rich with blossoming. The great warehouse doors of gratitude open wide as I notice the extraordinary beauty all around. One of my favourite poets is Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th century leader of a learning community in Konya, Turkey. His scribe, Husam Chelebi, faithfully recorded Rumi’s poetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a simple, clear, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How can I possibly share the complete experience of Nature through an image? That’s the question I explore every time I return from one of my photo adventures and begin the creative process of moving beyond the limitations of the camera, to include the dimensions of feeling, thought and state of being. It’s a labour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was walking through the woods when I discovered this fallen tree, recently cut by a chainsaw, with the sun casting a shadow of its still-growing leaves onto the rings of the trunk. It reminded me of the many times I lay on the ground at night, looking up at the sky, marvelling at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Livelihood</title>
		<link>http://conversations-with-nature.com/natural-livelihood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[career 1. a chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation; a job 2. the general course or progression of one&#8217;s working life or one&#8217;s professional achievements natural livelihood 1. a labour of love that wholeheartedly engages one from the core of being 2. an embodiment of a person’s innate gifts and talents in ways that nourish well-being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparkling Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The morning was patchy with frost and the ground was alive with sparkling potential as the sun rose and ran straight from the horizon. I kneeled, put my face in the grass and began eavesdropping on the conversations going on inside that brilliant forest. Curiosity is an integral and active part of nature. Plants and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spherical Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://conversations-with-nature.com/spherical-perspectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no accounting for what happens to a lover of Nature when he mixes homebrewed poetry with photography and drinks it every day. That elixir warms ones innards, arouses creative courage and sends me ambling on a lighthearted adventure into uncharted territory. Early one morning last week, I walked outside and discovered this gorgeous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://conversations-with-nature.com/natural-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I enter a conversation with Nature and everywhere I look and listen seems different: calm, gentle, close, quiet . . . violent, powerful, vast and loud. An immoveable mountain sits at the edge of a flowing sea. Blue sky at the horizon merges with grey clouds rising up and over my head. I feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginal Cells</title>
		<link>http://conversations-with-nature.com/imaginal-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is a compilation and distillation of information gathered from a wide variety of sources as part of my study of imaginal cells. While it was easy for me to find an abundance of beautiful and inspiring stories about caterpillars transforming into butterflies, it took some significant searching before I was able to discover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://conversations-with-nature.com/elephant-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our individual conversations with Nature can be an important part of a larger dialogue. One of my favourite stories is an old Indian parable about a group of people feeling an elephant in the dark and then sharing their individual perspectives with one another. One reaches out to the trunk and says the elephant is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fisgard Island Lighthouse Keepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Conversations with Nature are not for the fainthearted! The British built Fisgard Lighthouse in 1860, when Vancouver Island was not yet part of Canada, to guide vessels through the entrance of Esquimalt Harbour. It was the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada and it still stands today in remarkable shape. The former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Based Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hiking along a wilderness trail to the Pacific Ocean one morning on Vancouver Island when I saw this fern, lit by the morning sun, against the backdrop of old growth trees. I immediately went to the ground, camera in hand, to photograph it from the same perspective I enjoyed as a child — lying on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conversations-with-nature.com/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Children communicate with Nature instinctively. Their conversations, born out of innate curiosity, move them to explore, ask, touch, listen and enjoy Nature&#8217;s beauty and wisdom without hesitation or reservation. When my children were babies, before formalized education, peer pressure, video games and other unnatural influences had begun to appear in their lives; I would take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Carr</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I ever heard of Emily Carr, I fell in love with the places she explored and painted — giving rise to some extraordinary conversations with Nature and influencing every aspect of my life. In her book, Emily Carr: A Biography, Maria Tippett shares the following painting and description. It conveys the essence of the influence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryoria Kockiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first principle to go by is to just sit and let the land speak to you. ~ Henry Kock Anne Hansen, Victoria’s preeminent painter of oystercatchers, was high bidder in a recent name-that-lichen auction to raise funds for the Ancient Forest Alliance. The Alliance will use the money from her winning bid to map [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lau, Welnew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I hiked along a mountain on Vancouver Island that the Saanich First Nations hold as sacred. The mountain was the high point of land where they survived the Great Flood. They named it Lau, Welnew, which translates as Place of Refuge. Imagine the conversations with Nature that happened on this mountain during the time [...]]]></description>
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