http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog Earth Sanctuary: Nature Preserve and Meditation Parkland Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Felt like a child again. Walking through the trees in awe and enraptured with nature, totally free" -Sheila Pack, Earth Sanctuary Retreatant http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=355 "It's January, the changing of the year, a time for death and the promise of rebirth.  Among the brown leaves and wilted fern fronds, there are hints of new life to come.  I found it inside myself too.  Thank you."  -M.E. (Earth Sanctuary Retreatant) http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=350 We have just planted 200 new trees in the Earth Sanctuary arboretum.  Trees planted this year are: sibeian spruce, white spruce, sitka spruce, sequoia, white pine, ponderosa pine, grand fir, pacific silver fir, douglas fir, western red cedar, port orford cedar, redwood, black cottonwood, dawn redwood, western larch, and two palm ... http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=345 [caption id="attachment_334" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Palm Tree at Earth Sanctuary"][/caption] At Earth Sanctuary, we have a 500 year plan to return the property to mature old growth forest.  What trees should we plant with 500 years in mind?  The problem is complicated by the fact that at Earth Sanctuary, we have seen much longer ... http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=333 [caption id="attachment_325" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The just-planted Ava Pettis Sequoia"][/caption] For Christmas I got a small Sequoia tree from my daughter-in-law Kat and son Morgan.  Morgan is going to make a sign to go beside it: The Ava Pettis Sequoia Tree, named for my granddaughter.  Hopefully Ava will be able to watch it grow ... http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=323 Click to Play In this video, I give a tour of the Wetland Trail, including the Tibet-Tech prayer wheel, the Cottonwood Stone Circle, the erratic boulder, a restoration area with 10 Native American medicine plants, and the Fen, a spring-fed peatland or bog. Chuck Pettis, Earth Sanctuary Founder http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=318 Click to Play The leaves have fallen on the trails at Earth Sanctuary. This is a video of me walking the Middle Path trail from top to bottom. - Chuck Pettis http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=315 A story from a recent Earth Sanctuary retreatant: After hours of trying "too hard" in my centering prayer, hours of waiting to hear the still, small voice of God, hours of sitting, piecing together scraps of discernment that may or may not be at my heart, I was moved to tears ... http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=308 Earth Sanctuary was featured in a nice article in Change Magazine. http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=303 [caption id="attachment_292" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Hooded Merganser and Chicks"][/caption]   On Thursday, July 23, at 8:58am PDT, with an Earth Sanctuary dawn bird chorus in the background, you can hear my BirdNote radio interview on KPLU 88.5 FM.  See www.birdnote.org for more info. After it airs this Thursday morning, the interview will also be online in ... http://www.earthsanctuary.org/blog/?p=291