love your mother: happy earth day 2026

Hey, y’all,

Today is Earth Day, one of my favorite American celebrations. That’s because the greatest blessings of my whole life have been provided by the earth, under the great and starry sky. I’ll never be able to thank both sides of my family—parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles—for cleaving to nature with such joy, all our lives and generations through. What a legacy, to love being outside like we do.

Happy Earth Day, my friends. Never stop fighting for this precious planet.

“When you give yourself wholly to a piece of ground, its goodness enters your bloodstream like an infusion. You will never be alone in the same way again, and never quite dislocated. Your heart will grow down into and back out of that ground like a tree.”

~ Pam Houston, from Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country