Photo by Randi Hausken. Wikicommons. Nascent is the Spring by Amy Martin Do you feel it, the light returning? Halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, daylight swells enough to feel like days. Light returns […]
Winter Solstice: The Pause at the Bottom of the Breath
Winter Solstice: The Pause at the Bottom of the Breath by Amy Martin Thirty years ago. Thirty years ago, I looked in, I looked into water so deep it lost light – the transparent clarity […]
Taking Leave of Life
by Amy Martin . The last time I spoke with Memaw, she was in the intensive care unit. Peering out from the tangle of tubes, monitors and IV’s, her eyes were those of a frightened […]
Amy Martin selected to write Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth
Timber Press contracted Amy Martin to write Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, to be released on August 29, 2023. The book will cover Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties and will feature more […]
Bill Holston: segregation, legal life, human rights, & religion
by Amy Martin Bill Holston is well known in North Texas as the lawyer who serves as executive director for Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI). We sat down for a long and fascinating […]
poem: The Joy of Sweat
by Amy Martin Us two-legged mammals, along with horses and bears, all have bodies covered with hair. To cool we have sweat glands called eccrine, pumps in our skin that dispense salty brine. But […]
Women’s RED New Moon: Photos from 2020
On the second New Moon after Winter Solstice, mid-point to Spring Equinox, we can finally feel the lengthening days and the power of the Earth rising in the surging roots and budding stems. The ancient […]
Seeds of Abundance
by Amy Martin (c) for Autumn Equinox 2009 It was one of those brilliant autumn in days North Texas. The strident summer Sun had mellowed to just the right brightness, yet it was still t-shirt […]
Moonstruck
by Amy Martin (c) www.moonlady.com The night was dark. The cats slipped easily about the blackness in pursuit of phantom prey. As I moved back and forth between the house and garage, the air hung […]
The Web of Recycling
by Amy Martin (c) www.moonlady.com An aluminum can, emptied of its fluid contents, is tossed into a recycling bin and taken away. Is it a profound act of community? A spiritual ritual? An ecological cure-all? […]
Intersection: Marquez Crater
by Amy Martin About 60 million years ago, a meteorite or comet around one kilometer in diameter slammed into the Earth at some 20,000 miles per hour, blasting a 15-kilometer-wide crater on the edge of what was […]
