“Mommy, why don’t people care about the trees?” This quote from an article in the March issue of Sojourners magazine entitled, “Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaw” by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann, speaks volumes about the plight of parenting in a time of impending climate catastrophe. She asks what we ground ourselves in while facing what feels inevitable, what surely is apparent to even our youngest. The dragon, from a reference to the book of Revelation in Christian Scripture, waits for

This year during the Christian season of Lent, the forty days leading up to Easter, I chose for my reflections a series of writings on floriography, the means of communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Humanity has attributed meaning to various flowers for thousands of years. Flowers are given as an expression of something you might not say out loud as in Victorian times when the practice reached its height. We see floriography show up in art and poetry and