Tom D’Onofrio, a Methodist minister-turned-artist who blessed babies at the Bolinas Sun Festival for decades, died last month on July 16. He was 73 years old. 

Tom, who loved the outdoors his entire life, grew up in a church-going family in a New York mountain town. He planned to spend his life as a minister, but a move to California in his 20s changed him, and he became a wood carver who rode his beloved…