Kimberly M Post, PhD

Sugar maples tapped

tink tink of rising sweetness

winter softens first.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku 🪾

Already Becoming from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker

My new post! Early March in the meadow — snow thinning, goldfinches chattering, bluebirds checking their houses. Nothing here is waiting; everything is already becoming. #meadowwalker #March open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

a glimpse of the moon at sunrise #lookingup #march2026 #mainelife #natureisbeautiful

The wind lifts bare twigs –
for a breath, the world holds still

winter learning love.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku

Rewilding Attention: Listening to the Season’s Edge from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker

20 days until Spring! This week's short piece is a reminder that, even in our increasingly distracted and disconnected world, all we need to do is step outside and listen. #MeadowWalker #Birdsong #DeepListening #NatureIsSpeaking 🪶🌿🐦‍⬛ open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

Job openings are down at U.S. institutions in three fields where crowdsourced tracking documents are available: ecology and evolutionary biology, biomedical engineering, and chemistry decline."https://www.science.org/content/article/how-trump-s-moves-could-dramatically-reshape-scientific-workforce

this morning’s sky #lookingup #mainelife #natureisbeautiful #skyblessings

ocean dreams (turn up your volume!) 🌊🐋

bluebirds keeping watch #mainelife #meadowwalker #winter #lookingup 🪶

Learning to Receive from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker

Maple sap as teacher of attention, not extraction. A new addition to my Meadow Walker series for the sugaring season! open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

four crows #lookingup #mainelife #itsabirdsworld #howisee 🪶

Under smooth gray stones

green thoughts begin, growing light

to turn dark away.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku

Snow on bent branches

the forest forgets its name

in white whispering.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku

sundog sunset #natureisbeautiful #mainelife #february #parhelion

February 15th ocean love #mainelife #beachwalker #natureisbeautiful #blessed☀️❤️🌊

The Space Between Roots The birches outside my window have been my quiet companions for many years.

Dear Wind,
Thank you for carrying our stories farther than we can walk. 🍃https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlympost/p/the-space-between-roots

Snow speaks all day long

white rhetoric of wonder

silences meaning.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku ❄️

surveying the day, Northern Flicker #mainelife #winter #backyardview 🪶

Northern Flicker on the fence #winter #mainelife #birds 🪶

Crawford Nickel mine’s plan to store carbon in waste rock | The Narwhal The Crawford Nickel mine outside Timmins, Ont., is receiving millions of public dollars to figure out how to lower greenhouse gas emissions

In northern Ontario, a mining company plans to turn their tailings waste into a giant carbon sink #somethingpositive thenarwhal.ca/crawford-nic...

All things bend to cold
even light leans under ice,
waiting to begin.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku

Imbolc Blessings! Remember that there is still good in the world. Love without hesitation and shine like the light you are! 🙏🏼🌞✨🤍

Kimberly Post (@kimberlympost) Midwinter brings a landscape of ice — branches glazed, rivers paused, air sharpened to crystal. But while the Earth’s frozen places retreat under a warming sky, another kind of ice persists: one built...

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Scientists "quite surprised" to find one polar bear population thriving: "A fat bear is a healthy bear" After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but there are no guarantees for the future.

Some good news? www.cbsnews.com/news/polar-b...

Could a Solar Storm Trigger a Satellite Collision Crisis? Could a solar storm trigger chaos in low Earth orbit?

If satellites suddenly couldn’t steer around one another, how much time would elapse before there was a crash in orbit? Their current answer: 5.5 days. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

We are now 85 seconds to midnight. ⌛💥https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-Doomsday-Clock-Statement.pdf

Wide-Eyed Wonder: How Awe Shapes Children’s Spiritual Growth Keltner defines awe as “the emotion we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that we don’t understand.” And this emotion, Keltner discovered, is very, very good for us. Awe activates the vagus n...

One of the biggest markers of spiritual development in kids is a sense of awe. ✨https://www.templeton.org/news/wide-eyed-wonder-how-awe-shapes-childrens-spiritual-growth

What’s precious within

asks not to be understood,

only felt, in still.
#micropoem #tinypoem #haiku

A Bell, a Breath, a Raven from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker

I’ve been writing into the tension of this moment: human rights violated, communities splintered, the Earth bearing so much of our forgetting. This is my attempt to listen for the fragile threads of belonging that remain... and to honor how love persists 🙏🏻🪶
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Suppressed climate report warned of mass migration and nuclear war Unabridged document said disappearing forests and rivers drying up could drive people to Europe and lead to conflict in Asia

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