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July 2016

July 20, 2016

How George Leonard Showed Me the Tao

By Barbara Falconer Newhall My one and only flesh and blood brush with the ancient...

July 12, 2016

If God’s in It, Is It Art?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall It's the twenty-first century. Skepticism and secularism abound in the modern/post-modern West...

July 05, 2016

Do Plants Have a Will to Live? These Did

By Barbara Falconer Newhall It was done. Those ugly, maroon snapdragons had been banished from our front yard, despite...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Floricide at My House — I Offed Those Awful Snapdragons

By Barbara Falconer Newhall I did it. I committed floricide. I killed those snapdragons. I...

June 14, 2016

I Kill Plants. Do You?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall Is it OK to kill plants just because they are ugly?...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

How Did That Star Magnolia Get to Be? It’s Blooming Amazing

By Barbara Falconer Newhall They emerge from mud, manure, leaf rot, earthworms, sow bugs. They take...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Miracle on Planet Earth

By Barbara Falconer Newhall Want to experience a miracle? Take a walk on one of...

March 15, 2016

Do Trees Have Souls? Do We?

Photo by Barbara Newhall Photo by Barbara Newhall By Barbara Falconer Newhall Do trees have...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

‘Wrestling with God’ Celebrates Its First Anniversary

By Barbara Falconer Newhall I'm celebrating today: "Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith" has been...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

A Tree Dies in Texas — And Is Brought Back to Life by Art

Some temporary art installations deserve to be temporary. The graceless light projections of Danish artist Asbjoern Skou are a good...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

My Garden Grows Like Crazy. But Is It Really Mine?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall It's my garden, but I’m not the gardener. I don’t plant. I...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Huston Smith: What a Nonagenarian Can Tell You About God

By Barbara Falconer Newhall When Huston Smith turned 90 he did what he’d been doing...