The little creatures of the interdependent web of the universe have a lot to teach we big ones if, in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Annie Dillard, we will have the patience and take the time to “simply see.”

Rev. Dr. Jeanne Foster (she/her)
Jeanne Foster grew up in New Orleans. She is Professor Emerita Saint Mary’s College of California and former minister in Modesto. She has spoken in pulpits as wide-ranging as London, New Orleans, and San Francisco. She is also a writer and translator. A Blessing of Safe Travel won the QRL Poetry Award and The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, won the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. Among her other works are Goodbye, Silver Sister; Your Form Became My Own; and Appetite:Food as Metaphor, an anthology of poems by women. Ascoltando una conchiglia (Listening to a Shell), her selected poems translated into Italian, was published in 2025 by Molesini Editore Venezia.

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