I looked out the window this morning to find Lucas sitting on the step as he listened to a few more lines of his audiobook post-run. Past him, on the bench in the backyard, stood a big, light brown bird with a red head. It was too large to be a finch, taller than a robin, but not squat.

Welcome to “Head in the Clouds, Hands in the Dirt: Learning About Our World While Building My Own” which is everything it says in the title, plus a focus on taking action to protect this incredible world of ours.