Story Log Archives

ReStory is a log of stories and poems inspired in nature.

The way we think impacts the way we act. Shifting our collective behaviors to live in sync with planet earth requires a shift in dominant culture and ways of thinking. To shift our thinking, we need different stories. Humans are storytellers, we are moved and motivated by stories.

Our brains are networked by images and concepts painted by words and pictures, verbal and nonverbal, head and heart. Stories that heal the myth of right and left brain, that integrate truth and imagination, can help nudge our actions. Restore earth by tending to the ways you think. What stories do you tell?

Between you and me…

The truth is, between you and me. It’s there in the air that connects us. And in the touch, a glance, whiff or word. The truth is we have never been alone. The earth is always under our bodies, air surrounds us and water inside. When we narrow our experience of the world, and yield…

Nature Basking

Nature basking (nā-chər ˈbask-ing), not to be confused with nature bathing, is the unabashed connection of body to earth. Basking is to lie in nature, generally under warm rays of sunshine. While nature bathing, or the washing and soaking of the body in nature, is best done lightly clad, basking is preferably done clothed and…

Coyote Comics Track #2

“How to Read Water” by Tristan Gooley

"Try scanning your eyes slowly from one riverbank to the other to see if you can find the area where the shift takes place from looking at only reflections - the far bank - to being able to see into the water..." - Tristan Gooley I've looked at many a river without once pondering what color it…

Conservation Canines

Sampson can’t read the alphabet but he is trained as a conservation canine to locate the scat of endangered species by smell. Dogs have a remarkable ability to detect specific scents and Sampson’s nose helps the Center of Conservation Biology at University of Washington to identify wildlife scat that can then be tested to determine…

Your Nature

What was nature to you as a child? Was nature a park, backyard, outdoor school, summer camp or somewhere in a forest far away? Looking back, nature to me was where I hid for solitude, peace and relief from the chatter of humans. Growing up I shared a big bedroom with my two sisters. My family…

Sun-wise

Tis the first day of fall in the North. As it happens it is also the first day since spring that I do not have strict plans to uphold. I tend to my beehive, slipping sugar water into a hive feeder, watching sun-striped bees hum with preparations for winter. Slowly, slowly I move in bee time. Thankful…

Homing to the Group

Do you pull dandelions in your yard because you dislike their bright, yellow flowers or because you’d rather not be judged by your neighbors? If you knew dandelions were a food source for pollinators, especially in urban areas, would that change your behavior? Our human tendency to orient to the herd may make us strangely similar to…

Salmon Season

You are the hands of my father filleting steaks, smell of alder in the smokehouse, roar of a diesel engine chugging upriver, ocean salt melting in my mouth. Where the salmon run, I am home.

Bringing Nature Home

Douglas W. Tallamy, author of "Bringing Nature Home," shares his passion for native plants and insects as the base of the terrestrial food web. Want to support birds, butterflies and bees? Plant a variety of native plants in your yard and they will come. With habitat loss threatening species small and large, Tallamy offers a solution…