Called by The Nature Conservancy one of the three most important regions in the world for tackling climate change and conserving biodiversity.
Listen to Katy Morikawa wherever you get your podcasts.
Song of Appalachia
Called by The Nature Conservancy — one of the three most important regions in the world for tackling climate change and conserving biodiversity.
Listen to Katy Morikawa wherever you get your podcasts.
Writer, philosopher, artist, activist, amateur gardener, apprentice naturalist, ardent advocate for Appalachian biodiversity and ecological restoration worldwide.
~ Katy Morikawa, naturalized citizen of Appalachia, Blacksburg H. S. Class of 1986, B. A. Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa, M.A. Counseling Psychology, Somatics, California Institute of Integral Studies, currently residing in Floyd, Virginia.
What’s on my mind right now:
The First Quarter Moon lies with the heart of our galaxy tonight. The moon at 25 Sagittarius will cross the galactic plane, the mean center of the disc of our Milky Way galaxy, early on the morning of October 2, 2022.
October 1, 2022, 7:58 pm, Eastern Daylight time, the first quarter moon aligns at 25 Sagittarius, less than ten hours from crossing the galactic plane at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
The other evening, I decided to put on boots and walk down the driveway to commune with my brand new wildflower planting at the bottom of our driveway. Twilight was…
Extinctions and endangered species are on my mind this week. Who have we lost? And what are we poised to lose? The monarch butterfly flutters top of mind, but so…
Last year, the Siberian American shaman, Jade Grigori, gave me a key shamanic teaching: that when you seek to heal yourself, you must heal the Earth, because we are the…
Supporting native pollinators can be so much more than planting monarda and milkweed! It can be more than trying to create a wildflower meadow. It can be targeted at your…
The journey to create more wild beauty on our property and help conserve Appalachia is full of twists and turns: learning the Latin names, absorbing the The Nature Conservancy’s evaluation…
If you care about flowers for the pollinators, supporting ecological biodiversity, clean water and air, healthy soil, low-maintenance landscaping, or climate change, native plants are you allies! This is a…
The other evening, I decided to put on boots and walk down the driveway to commune with my brand new wildflower planting at the bottom of our driveway. Twilight was…
Extinctions and endangered species are on my mind this week. Who have we lost? And what are we poised to lose? The monarch butterfly flutters top of mind, but so…
Last year, the Siberian American shaman, Jade Grigori, gave me a key shamanic teaching: that when you seek to heal yourself, you must heal the Earth, because we are the…
Supporting native pollinators can be so much more than planting monarda and milkweed! It can be more than trying to create a wildflower meadow. It can be targeted at your…
The journey to create more wild beauty on our property and help conserve Appalachia is full of twists and turns: learning the Latin names, absorbing the The Nature Conservancy’s evaluation…
If you care about flowers for the pollinators, supporting ecological biodiversity, clean water and air, healthy soil, low-maintenance landscaping, or climate change, native plants are you allies! This is a…
