(The following is from the e-newsletter from Wild Earth. No affiliation with this blog or wherever shared.  See more on their site WildEarth.org)

Wild Earth Needs Your Support! 

Over the last 3 months, Wild Earth has shown up for our local communities and now we need our community to show up to sustain our organization! 

We have pivoted to provide weekly remote learning activities for our school partners, helped Kingston high school seniors reflect on their accomplishments before graduation, and contributed hundreds of hours to mutual aid and emergency food efforts! 

We also had

Here is one of a few dozen poems and flyers I've shared in the past few decades. Sometimes it doesn't take much to make connections...Some would say the paper itself and any scribbles or simple drawings (such as the acorn, heart and star smiling faces that often were on the papers too) along with a little contact info is all it takes. What If you were to pick up a pen and paper today and 'see what comes along' with a prompt of the Acorns to Oaks theme, the month we're in, the times we're in...

 No one has to see it but if you'd like, feel free to share it with me anonymously or for credit on

NY-MA-CT HOUSATONIC FRIENDS ("Let's Keep A Good Thing Growing Around the World!") by Catherine Palmer Paton

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National and global homes and hearts

You and All in a living web do your parts

Magical Mothers, Friendly Fathers

Awesome Adults, Super Sisters and Brothers 

Celebrate Community and

Trustworthy Teamwork by

Helping Each Other

Outside and In, to Listen and

Understand Each Other

Smile and Win, Growing from

Acorns