Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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Letter to America, Martin Luther King Day 2017

Since the election Terrain.org is hosting a “Letter to America” series from writers coming to terms with the present political moment. Here is my contribution. Dear America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words so bold they clearly belong to a different time than our own. For we could never…  Read More…

The Electoral College is unconstitutional

We are facing a constitutional crisis. The Electoral College system, intended to protect liberty, has produced a profoundly unconstitutional president-elect. How did we get to this point? Vision of liberty In 1787 James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper No. 10—an essay intended to drum up popular support for the newly drafted Constitution—that “mischiefs of faction”…  Read More…

The Law is in the ground

Of the many voices I included in Kissed by a Fox, one has stayed with me longer than just about any other. That voice belongs to Doug Campbell, an Aboriginal man from Australia who worked with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose. Campbell said in Rose’s Dingo Makes Us Human, You see that hill over there?…  Read More…

A Thanksgiving prayer

For all who would like to join in setting a larger table this Thanksgiving Day, here is a Mi’Kmaq prayer: Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people. Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect for all children of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all…  Read More…