Through Nature’s Own Lens “From the moment that you first encounter Gloria’s Stories, you find yourself in a place of beauty and grace. I can almost smell and hear and taste her words as I read them. Refreshing. Soothing. Sweet. Always threaded uniquely with hope, wisdom, and little nuggets of truth, this site is a great place of…
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The Triumph of Seeds: What Lies Within
The triumph of life is that the fruit is already in the seed. (Shelly) Note: I borrowed this title from the book: The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson.* If you are a lover of nature, Hanson is part storyteller and part botanist. Life begets life. The regenerative power of seeds is a metaphor for…
The Edges of Knowing
Though I play at the edges of knowing, I know my part is not knowing, but looking, seekingand touching, and loving. — Mary Oliver The BeyondMy early years were spent on our large and productive family farm in Southern New Jersey. Our spacious red brick farmhouse held a wonderful mix of generations: my grandfather, Ernesto…
Vernal Equinox 2024: Balancing Lion and Lamb, Day and Night
Note: Revisiting a post from March 2022. Nature teaches us how to balance light and dark, holding on and letting go, competition and harmony. Follow the link below.
Light as a Feather, Fluid as Water
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. —– Jean-Pierre de Caussade We are fluid,Floating in divine motion,The current that quenches the soul.—- G. Hill God is a God of motion, of beauty, of dimension, of movement, and of mission.—–…
Set Your Intention: The Power of Now
When you set an intention God directs the entire universe to make it happen.—–Sandy Forster Intention is the seed of transformation. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too. —Rick Warren Set your intention with one who listens.Intention is always positive. It is always…
The Heart at Christmas: Where Everything Meets
Even the best times are punctuated with an open space,and that someone who is missing. ——Nancy Guthrie Our silk Christmas tree stands tall, twinkling in perfect symmetry. Yet there is a place in my heart for those imperfect trees from years gone by, the ones we chopped down ourselves.I can easily recall the heightened sense of…
Transformations: From the Quill of the Swan
Thanksgiving Message: Take time to be thankful for lessons learned the hard way, maybe especially the hard way. In all of the falling, flawing and failing, there is the grace of learning, of shedding an old way for a new. ——N. Waheed “The swan now revered his past ordeal, having endured suffering, sorrow and trouble,…
Darkness Yields to Light
The darkness of the world cannot swallow the glowing of one soul. —–Khalil Gibran The sun will not peek above my horizon for another hour. There is no moonlight to guide my way. A few lonely stars blink an early greeting. My hand-held lantern swings back and forth, spreading repetitive patterns of dark-light, dark-light. I…
To Grow My Garden Within
What lies behind us and what lies ahead are tiny matters compared to what is seeded within. —-John Muir Introducing my new book: To Grow My Garden Within (Amazon, Covenant Books and Barnes and Noble) There is something special about September leaves drifting from the trees, as if we are allowed a chance to peel…
Finding Stillness
I am frequently asked about the start of Gloria’s Nature Whisperer. Inspiration can hit like a bolt of lightning, or it can float on butterfly wings. Mine was more like the latter. A text flew in on the wings of friendship. My friend Carol, asked this simple question: “What are you doing?“ She was in…
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