The Faces of Gaia

The Faces of Gaia

by | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden

The Faces of Gaia Click image above to view in full screen All the creatures in this painting are within the Celtic Knot. One-part flows into another part of the knot as it is an image of the whole. It has become an image, for me, of our seen and unseen belonging...
A Remarkable Abundance

A Remarkable Abundance

by | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden

A Remarkable Abundance Click image above to view in full screen The farm in the rich, sandy soils of New Jersey where I grew up was a big garden while requiring a great deal of hard work. One of the main crops was tomatoes. In the middle of the summer when the...
Nothing is Inconsequential

Nothing is Inconsequential

by | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden

Nothing is Inconsequential Click image above to view in full screen I’ve been watching the flowering crabapple tree out my window and I worry that I don’t see any bees busily flying from blossom to blossom. If this year the blossoms are not pollinated, I would...
The Unfurling of Surprise

The Unfurling of Surprise

by | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden

The Unfurling of Surprise Click image above to view in full screen It gives great pause for thought and wonder to learn that the powerful forces of a supernova explosions created the elements that comprise the morning glory. And it was in the 1920s that we learned...
Saint Francis and the Birds

Saint Francis and the Birds

by | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden

Saint Francis and the Birds Click image above to view in full screen Saint Francis called creatures, “no matter how small, by the name of brother or sister because he knew they had the same source as himself” (VII, 6). In Bonaventure’s Life of St Francis...