Have you loved your wetland today? This one is three years old. Just three!

Forget the doom and gloom for a moment.
The earth has a capacity for renewal. This wetland is 100 metres above the valley floor, in the sagebrush. It is 2 kilometres long and 1-2 metres wide. In three years. Reeds, sedges, rushes, willows, cottonwoods, they’re all here, where you wouldn’t expect water at all. And still beautiful.The secret? Put the damned weed-whacker down. Have a cool drink. Wait.

You won’t have to wait long. Now is the time for harvesting. What are you waiting for? Off to the reeds with you! What, you have too much joy in your life? Pshaw, off with you.

You don’t have to feel guilty about rejoicing.

You think the earth isn’t a place for joy?