dust in the wind

Just like that, here we are - Lenten season has started with Ash Wednesday on February 17. 

Lent is the traditional commemoration of the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry. 

Ash Wednesday

On Wednesday clergy around the world draw a cross-shaped smudge of dark ash on the foreheads of millions of people. It is the ancient rite of The Imposition of Ashes which signals the start of Lent.

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trees heal us

Rather than flip out in fear that climate change will cook us all to a crisp, here at wonder | wander | world we choose to be hope full. 

Yes - we intend to remain filled with hope however dire, nagging, and truthful the doomsayers are. 

Yes - no matter how well-informed we are, we are surely not alarmed enough. 

According to this Intelligencer article by David Wallace-Wells - Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak sooner than you think - is a scary but vital read. 

Chipko tree huggers 

Yes - it is also possible to grow a forest in twenty years. So let us do that instead. 

And while we are at it - here are more sweet encouragements to entice us. 

A relationship with a tree is a mutually beneficial one which needs to be nourished.

dangerous living

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