And another one of these years’ Labors of LOVE was the clearing & cleansing & tending of Havenwood; a 22+ acre plot of woodlands – home to many millions of my sentient brothers & sisters – that I was blessed to lovingly steward (and videos of which I was then able to offer to all via my YouTube channel) …

“You do not have to be good or perfectly pure. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting while you crawl. You only have to let the soft essence of your Soul boldly love what it truly loves. You might well tell me about despair, and I might well tell you mine. And yet meanwhile the world flows ever onward. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare endlessly moving across the landscapes, flowing over ans through the prairies and the deep trees, down the mountainsides and along the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are ever heading home again. So whoever you are, no matter how lost or lonely, the world continuously offers itself to your imagination, perpetually calls to you like the wild geese, loud and joyously blaring. Over and over it calls to you, boldly announcing your place in the greater family of things.” ~ inspired by Mary Oliver

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes; by the deep sea, with music in its roar. With this ever in heart, please & firmly know: I love not man the less, but Nature ever more.” ~ via Lord Byron

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