Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π October 10, 02026 π New Moon Dear friends, Today I have a Book Review to share with you. Lonesome for Wilderness: Tracking and Trailing in Forest, Desert, or Your Own Back Yard by Linda Jo Hunter A while ago I got curious about animal tracking, so I ordered a bunch of books on the topic from the library. Most of them were field guides, stuffed full of technical information and images of tracks, sorted by species....
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π October 3, 02026 πLast Quarter Moon Dear friends, For a while now, I've been really into Nature Journaling with pen. Unlike with pencil, of course, you can't erase. I think this helps me to be a little looser with my sketches and less perfectionist. But... sketches are still a way of recording information. What do you do if you make a "mistake" and the drawing (and therefore, the information) is inaccurate? It's OK...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 26, 02026 πFull Harvest Moon Dear friends, I've always loved Disney movies. However, I usually find myself feeling irritated about the live-action remakes. I'm a huge fan of animation, and I think it deserves to be taken more seriously as an art form. Why would you try to improve on something that's already a masterpiece? I don't need to be looking at real people and celebrity actors to be able to enjoy...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 20, 02026 Dear friends, I have decided to teach a "Pop-up" (e.g., last-minute) class tomorrow on "How to Be a Nature Storycatcher." It will be on Zoom, and I am offering this free for the community: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/brVCflN7QDKEUKpmtFceZA#/registration Storytelling is the most foundational core routine of all the core routines of nature connection. How do we catch the stories of...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 18, 02026 First-quarter Moon π Dear friends, Sometimes when you're really busy, it can feel hard to make time for nature journaling. Today I'm writing to share a reminder that even if you only have a minute, the practice of nature journaling is something that can make a big difference to your sense of well-being. A one-minute sketch can still bring you out of the worries in your head and into observing...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 11, 02026 New Moon π Dear friends, Do you know any young birders? (or are you one yourself)? Today I have something to share that you might be interested in! The American Birding Association has something called the Young Birder of the Year Program for ages 10-18. Registration is open now but it closes on September 15! I was actually a participant in this program myself for a couple years around 2012 /...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 7, 02026 Dear friends, Look at this babeyyyyy π»β¨ A photo of Rebecca's cat Ries, a white and gray lynx point tabby with a black striped tail, curled up adorably in a pile of blankets and plushies in front of a bookshelf that has environmental education books including "Project Wild" and "How to Teach Nature Journaling." This is my cat Ries. Some of you know him as "the TA Kitty," because he loves to come...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 6, 02026 Dear friends, The three main βlanguagesβ of nature journaling are Words, Pictures, and Numbers. Itβs good to use all three because they help your brain pay attention to what youβre observing in different ways. That way, you can notice more about what is beautiful and what makes you curious. But itβs OK to have a favorite! Which one do you gravitate towards most? (Mine is words). Which one do you...
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Nature Connection with Rebecca: Letters of Wonder from My Ecosystem to Yours π September 4, 02026 π Dear friends, Recently I was reading some of the oldest blog posts from 2009 from a writer who started a blog anonymously as a way to track her progress in learning a skill. What I find inspiring is that she learned as she went along, and she did her learning in public. Now she has written books and is well-known. The things she teaches other people are based on what she learned from her own...
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