Save the Date!

 Evening Paddle with Wisdom of Thoreau  July 8th 5:45 p.m. - 8 p.m. .Paddle the beautiful Ipswich River accompanied by wisdom from Henry David Thoreau and neighbors (beaver, muskrat, great blue heron, belted kingfisher, bass). Launch from IRWA (Ipswich River Watershed Association) Kayaks/canoes available (or bring own). Good event for novice and experienced paddlers. No fee. Limit 10 boats, RSVP Paddle Thoreau

Where we've been!

February 8th on a splendid winter day we hiked the snowy trails to and around Moon Hill of Bradley Palmer State Park. Wisdom reading of poet Mary Oliver This was our inaugural event for North Shore SING. Onward!

NS SING on March 22nd enjoyed a wonderful hike, two days after the Spring equinox, at Ravenswood Park in Gloucester. Wisdom from John O'Donohue, Irish mystic, philosopher. Celtic spirituality, both pagan and Christian, the natural world is understood as a place of meeting.

On April 19th twenty intrepid hikers hiked along the beautiful Ipswich River, through a restored forest (invasive plants taken out with native plants takingn root). We bathed too in an old growth forest of Hemlock and Red Oak at Julia Bird Reservation. Accompanied by indigenous wisdom of Braiding Sweetgrass.

On May 17th an intrepid group kayaked the Ipsiwch River. We shared the paddle with Baltimore Orioles, Great Blue Herons, Momma and baby geese, and a tail slapping beaver. We were accompanied too by a wisdom reading from Hildegard of Bingen a 12th century Benedictine abbess, mystic, physician, botanist, feminist who said: "Everything that is in the heavens, on earth and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness."

Evening of June 17th we welcomed the Summer Solstice.  Accompanied by the wisdom of Wendell Berry, poet, environmental prophet, farmer, mystic. His iconic poem ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ offers respite and renewal. Hike featured patter of rain on the canopy and beauty of old growth White Pine forest. At Beverly Commons Conservation Area (an Essex County Greenbelt Association property).