This episode features a new guest writer—Sandrafrom Switzerland. She offers three selections taken from a collection of her worktentatively entitled A Hiker’s Notebook.From an early age, PK has learned the inducements of nature to spiritualunderstanding, as he was raised a preacher’s kid in north central Maine. Hisparents were spiritual naturalists at heart but probably didn’t know it. They took a lot of family trips on the backroads to explore the northern woods and waters of The Pine Tree State. PKdreamed of living like a hermit there in those woods with a good water sourcenearby. He read all the Field & Stream mags he could get his hands on. Hisfolks bought him a subscription to Outdoor Life. The world of nature fascinatedthe preacher’s kid as a child and drew him to itself. For there, he began tobelieve that maybe God could be found in nature. At that stage of life, Godlost the silvery haired image and pulsed invisible in the carbon life forms onEarth. Some folks have even called it their Ground of Being. In this reading ofSandra’s work the natural world speaks for itself. So be it.