Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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45. What does the Earth ask of us?

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Transcript You know that feeling when you’ve heard something so important you just have to share it? I have that feeling today. And it comes from watching a talk that Robin Wall Kimmerer gave last month in Montana. Most of you know who Robin is, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a professor and…  Read More…

44. You’re the fish

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Transcript So we begin today with some words from Rumi: Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. A decade ago I entered a period of transformation. Live long enough, and a few such times of change will catch up with you—often after a big loss, a death or…  Read More…

43. Where water wants to go

Transcript Here on Maui our hearts are breaking for Lahaina—for the town that is gone, for the people still missing, for the families who are grieving their homes and loved ones. And for the rich history of the town, where Maui royalty had lived for hundreds of years. Our hearts are breaking too for the…  Read More…

42. A path of listening

Transcript So I’m working on my next book, or I should say it’s working on me. I’m still in the early stages, where I’m writing toward the book more than writing the book itself—keeping a journal, doing research, musing about themes, hazarding some guesses. It’s all the stuff that comes at the beginning, before you…  Read More…

41. Why is the world so beautiful?

Transcript “Why is the world so beautiful?” This question inspired a young plant-loving woman of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation to go to college and study botany. Robin Wall Kimmerer tells the story in her luminous book Braiding Sweetgrass—how this question guided her as she earned a PhD and became a professor of botany, and how…  Read More…

40. Trusting inner knowing

Transcript So, last time we talked about inner knowing, and how it it tends to be underappreciated, and underdeveloped, in people in Western countries because here we begin our knowing in the knowing of others. Our reflex is to listen to others’ voices first, before our own. And we also saw how thousands of years…  Read More…