I'm a Maine Master Naturalist, freelance writer, and education director for a local land trust. My happy moments are spent wandering and wondering in the woods of western Maine. And photographing and sketching what I see. And writing about the experience. And trying to find out the answers. Honestly though, I don't want to know all of the answers.
For the most part, I just like the wandering and wondering. That's when I feel most alive. I hope you'll join me on the journey. Sometimes it will be a little of this and a lot of that. Probably, it will be that way for the most part.
I've found I don't have to wander far to find myself wondering. And maybe along the way I can encourage you to step out your door or out of your comfort zone and do the same.
Just take a look at the flowers on that Red Maple twig above. Have you ever stopped to check them out? To really look at them?
I think it all came clear to me years ago when our oldest son was competing in a Nordic ski race. We'd had a fresh snow storm the day before. After the race he said, "Mom, it's so beautiful out there. Everyone was going so fast that they missed it." Yup. That's what it's all about.
Join me to wonder as I wander.
I think I can learn some photography skills from you!
Leigh, this will be a fun outlet for you…and for those of us lucky enough to know you, and find the site. Thanks!
Love reading your posts. Photography and sketches are pretty cool too.
JVP, thanks for reading them. Welcome aboard! More to come in the future. Stay tuned.
Anticipation is the name of the game … Wondering While Wandering … What's around the next bend? … as inner and outer worlds find convergence in the complex simplicities in being intentionally attentive to Nature's Grace… Ahhhh!
Ahhhh, Db. Well said. Well lived.
Found your blog while googling images of pre-colonial stone walls… refreshingly written, my friend, and I like the pictures, too!
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, yea old red schoolhouse!
I stumbled across your blog looking for info on squirrel middens. I teach kindergarten in a public charter school in Gray, Maine. We wonder and wander in our local forest. I wondered if you ever do school programs or would be willing to do so?
That would be fun, fiddleheadkindergarten. I actually run an after-school program in Lovell for 6-10 year olds. Please send me an e-mail separate from my blog. Even if I can't do it, I can probably find someone else.


1. According to Psalm 85:6, God's people need to be revived on an ongoing basis.
2. One of the keys to revival is found in Psalm 85:8: "I will hear what God the Lord will speak."
3. The Scriptures contain a number of great themes that need to be studied regularly.
4. We are beginning a series of lessons in which we will examine 13 of these "great themes of the Bible."
5. As we consider information relating to these themes, let us allow God to revive us.
6. The first great theme we are covering is: "God Is Our Creator."
A. Several passages refer to God as "Creator."
1. (Isaiah 40:28) He is called "the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth."
2. (1 Peter 4:19) He is called "a faithful Creator."
B. God's creative power is declared in Genesis 1:1.
C. The details of God's Creation are revealed in Genesis 1:3-31.
1. Day 1: God created light (vs.3-5).
2. Day 2: God created the firmament (vs.6-8).
3. Day 3: God created the seas, dry land, and plant life (vs.9-13).
4. Day 4: God created the sun, the moon, and the stars (vs.14-19).
5. Day 5: God created birds and marine life (vs.20-23).
6. Day 6: God created land animals and man (vs.24-31).
D. Faith enables us to understand how God created everything (Hebrews 11:3; Romans 10:17).
E. In Psalm 19:1-6 David presented evidence to show that God is Creator.
A. God is referred to as man's Creator in Ecclesiastes 12:1.
B. The details of God's creation of man and woman are given in Genesis 2:7, 18-24.
C. Jesus endorsed the Genesis account of man's creation (Mark 10:6).
A. God deserves to be praised because of His Creation (Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:1-5).
B. God deserves to be praised because of His creation of man today (Psalm 139:13-16).
C. Have you taken the time today to reflect upon the fact that God is our Creator?


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Daredevil Season 3 Will Feature An 'Evolving' Kingpin
By AJ Caulfield/Dec. 23, 2017 6:04 pm EST
This baddie is only going to get better.
Speaking in an interview with Collider, Daredevil actor Vincent D'Onofrio, who plays the hulking villain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, discussed how the Netflix-Marvel series is moving forward now that a new showrunner is on board. Co-executive producer of Unforgettable and Arrow Erik Oleson replaces Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez (who previously stepped in for Steven DeKnight) for the upcoming third season of Daredevil, and that means significant changes–particularly for D'Onofrio's character–are in order.
The actor explained that Oleson has placed Kingpin on an emotional trajectory for season three, one that sees him grow, adapt, and evolve. "It's hard to top the first season, with Steven DeKnight's writing, but Erik Oleson is a very good writer. I've shot some pretty cool scenes so far. It's different, but it's very Fisk. It's still very emotional," teased D'Onofrio. "The character is evolving. His whole deal is based on emotion, so we're taking him down that role further."
Once Kingpin returns to Hell's Kitchen–where he'll likely make Matt Murdock's (Charlie Cox) life a nightmare and the surrounding suburbs a total hellscape–he'll set his sights on "new focuses and new goals," as D'Onofrio put it.
He was sure to add that Daredevil fans will be wholly satisfied with the butt-kicking action sequences and hair-pin plot turns that happen in the forthcoming season. "I can only say that we're doing things that are just going to blow the fans away. We've already shot some things that are just going to be neat for the fans," said D'Onofrio. "There's some awesome things that are very much in the history of Fisk and Daredevil, that people have been waiting for. We've already put some of that stuff in the can, and there's a lot more to do. I think they're gonna be very happy."
D'Onofrio also took the time to express his adoration for the character and his excitement to be working in the Marvel television world. "I love the idea that I get to play him. I wanted to do the right thing, and I want to keep doing it," the actor stated. "I remember the first season and how all of the Daredevil and Fisk fans were talking about it. It's a big deal to them, and that really inspired me. It really brought my enthusiasm up, a lot. Their interest and their enthusiasm helps me do the best I can." However, that's all the actor could say about the upcoming season without spoiling specifics. "If it was up to me, I would go on and on and on about it because it's so interesting, but it's so important to them, for us to keep our mouths shut," he said.
D'Onofrio's remarks here are a positive sign in three ways: 1) they pump fans up for more Daredevil, 2) they prove that he's as committed to his character and the series as ever, and 3) they palliate any fears that Daredevil's third turn with new showrunner would result in disaster.
Taking a look at all the cards on the table, it seems Daredevil season three will surprise us all–and just might be the series' best installment yet.

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Over the past decade, religious ethics has been a site for the development of diversity of voices on growing number of topics. Nonetheless, ethics itself seems to be in decline as a subfield of religious studies. At the American Academy of Religion, the Ethics Section and the Bioethics and Religion Group continue to draw strong participation. Those are the only two units of the AAR that have "ethics" in their names. But particularly in the Ethics Section, the papers seem increasingly to come from outside of philosophical and theological ethics and more and more from descriptive fields of study, such as anthropology and sociology of religion.
As discussed in an earlier post, a recent AAR survey of the academic job market from 2001-2010, the "normative" or "constructive" fields of study, which include theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics have had the largest decrease in advertised positions—with ethics itself at the very bottom. More recent jobs surveys published in January 2014 and November 2014 report the continuing dwindling of jobs in ethics but do not elaborate further on the state of the normative studies troika.
Even if ethics seems to be on the wane in the field of religious studies, interest in religious ethics and normative issues in religion seems to be cropping up in a number of related disciplines, particularly in the areas of social and political ethics. Sociology of religion, once thought to be a field on the wane, has come back, and research organizations, such as the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project (formerly the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life), now devote significant and sustained attention to normative issues in ethical and political life. A newer institution, the Public Religion Research Institute, founded by Emory-trained ethicist, Robert P. Jones, has been giving the folks at Pew a run for their money for years and has become a go-to resource on religion and politics in the U.S., including many issues related to values, morals, and ethics.
APSA has had a Religion and Politics section since 1986, and it publishes the journal Politics and Religion (incidentally, a sister journal to the Journal of Law and Religion at Cambridge University Journals–article and book review submissions welcome!). The International Studies Association also has a section on Religion and International Relations. These fields are fertile ground for many of us who do work in political ethics–but they are still largely outside of the religious studies milieu.
Perhaps it is time for the field of religious ethics and the rest of the Geisteswissenschaften , domestically but also globally and comparatively, to engage the Sozialwissenschaften–but without going purely descriptive or becoming data slaves. This could be a way to revitalize and expand the normative study of religion and especially the subfield of religious ethics.


The Duterte Administration pays significant attention in building infrastructures to revive Philippine economy. With these mega projects, it generates employment and as these projects are being completed, the transport and business sectors as well as ordinary Filipinos would enjoy the benefits . As a product of state visits and negotiations with other countries, President Rodrigo Duterte has raised trillions of Pesos to fund these infrastructure projects.
With estimated budget of P150B, A 69.5 kilometer mass transportation railway that will extend PNR North 1, connecting NCR with Clark International Airport and New Clark City. The project will enable a one-way travel time of 56 minutes between Manila and Clark International Airport (CIA), supporting the development of CIA as a major air transport hub. PNR North 2 will be seamlessly integrated with PNR North 1 and PNR South Commuter.
The Subic-Clark Railway Project will provide rail connection between Subic Bay Freeport Zone and Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone, linking Subic Port with Clark International Airport and other major economic hubs in Central Luzon, especially Clark Green City, and forming an integrated logistics hub for the development of Central Luzon as a new growth center to decongest Metro Manila.
With estimated budget of P57.6B, the project is expected to be completed on 2021.
The Bonifacio Global City (BGC) – Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a mass transport system that will traverse through the Bonifacio Global City, Bonifacio South, Villamor Air Base, NAIA Terminal (1-3) up to Ninoy Aquino Station of the proposed LRT-1 Extension Project. This is part of the Metro Manila BRT System that will help ease traffic congestion.
With the growing demand of airports to accommodate the numbers of travellers going in and out of the country, the expansion and modernization of the Clark International Airport would be a great help. With estimated budget amounting to almost P22B, the project aims to construct a new passenger terminal building to accommodate 8 million passengers per annum, as well as the construction and installation of all required associated facilities - both landside and airside, to support the operations of the Clark International Airport.
BCDA, in partnership with the Philippine Sports Commission, will build a sports complex inside the Clark Green City equipped with modern facilities for scientific sports training and development of Philippine athletes. With estimated budget of P97B, the project involves the construction of facilities for the National Sports Training Center, Sports Institute, and Athletes' Village. It will also feature residential and commercial developments to support the activities in the sports complex. Envisioned to become world-class facility, the Philippine Sports City will be considered as a venue for major international sports events such as the Southeast Asian Games. It is expected to be completed on the latter part of 2021.
Panguil Bay Bridge Project is a 3.48-km, two lane bridge that will connect the city of Tangub in Misamis Occidental to the municipality of Tubod in Lanao del Norte.
Funded under loan agreement with Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (KEDCF), the ₱4.9-billion mega infrastructure project is expected to accelerate and sustain the economic growth in Mindanao regions by providing efficient and seamless transport of goods and services.
This project is a 73.75 km highway with 2 km tunnel. It is divided into three segments: Talisay-Cebu City-Mandaue (Segment 1), Consolacion-Liloan-Compostela-Danao (Segment 2), and Naga-Minglanilla (Segment 3). Expected to be completed on 2022, it has estimated budget of P18B.
This project is expected to reduce travel time from 1 hour and 44 minutes via Pan Philippine Highway and Diversion Road to 49 minutes via Davao By –pass road. It has a budget of almost P20B and expected to be completed before 2023.