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Priscilla Stuckey

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Reimagining community

October 2, 2020

Transcript So this coronavirus is a great demystifier. It’s pulling aside the curtain on fractures in our society, the weak places that keep us from pulling together as a community during a pandemic. Fractures like racism and inequality. And today I’d like to talk about something that underlies all the weak points, and that is…  Read More…

Tagged With: authoritarianism, building community, climate change, climate crisis, community, conformity, hierarchy, Indigenous concepts of community, individual, individual vs. community, individualism, individuality, masks, mass marketing, pandemic, refusing to wear masks

 

Everything is alive and we are all relatives

September 18, 2020

Transcript “Everything is alive, and we are all relatives.” The sentence showed up in an essay I read this week by a Native Hawaiian philosopher named Manulani Aluli Meyer. Manulani was quoting a teacher of hers who said that this one sentence, with its two simple ideas, is what Indigenous peoples from around the world…  Read More…

Tagged With: all my relations, aloha 'āina, animism, climate change, connecting with nature, deforestation, epistemology, healing the Earth, Indigenous epistemology, land-community, reforestation, relationship, relationships with nature, rights of nature, sustainability, TEK, traditional ecological knowledge

 

Finding beauty in tough times

September 4, 2020

Transcript I think back to the early months after the 2016 election. Sleepless nights. Shock. We had a feeling about what was coming, and we were not wrong. In the middle of those early weeks, I started posting a nature photo every day on Facebook. Out of my decades of sunsets and birds and mountains…  Read More…

Tagged With: Alice Herz-Sommer, beauty, concentration camp, connecting with nature, Great Becoming, music, nature and health, nature's healing power, Rita Dove, Theresienstadt

 

Love in a time of catastrophe

August 21, 2020

Transcript: So, how do we deal with the fatigue that sets in during a time like this? How do we possibly grieve 170,000 deaths in this country from a pandemic? Not to mention the daily assault on truth by this administration? Lies that are easy enough to disprove, but the torrent of them wears on…  Read More…

Tagged With: Barry Lopez, connecting with nature, connecting with rocks, connecting with trees, connecting with water, everyday rituals, love, two-minute vacation

 

Turning our faces into the water

August 14, 2020

Transcript We stand in waist-high waves and slip on our fins. The world around us is blue—a surface of rippling sapphire stretched out to the horizon. A lighter blue of sky above us, a few clouds drifting. We jiggle our masks one last time to make sure they’re in place and bite down on our…  Read More…

Tagged With: fish, invisible world, listening to nature, nature spirituality, reef fish, Robin Wall Kimmerer, snorkeling, traditional ecological knowledge, undersea life, way of the heart

 

Just like a tree

August 7, 2020

Transcript I’m thinking today about how a tree grows, from a seed. So I went to YouTube, and I found some time-lapse videos, just to watch the wonder of it all over again. There’s the seed, covered in damp soil. Then a few seconds in, something magical happens. We call it germination, but that’s such…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward nature, Augustine, capitalism, germination, gift of life, life force, original sin, poverty, Protestant work ethic, Protestantism, Sobonfu Somé, views of human nature

 
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ICYMI: This story, pubbed first in Grist, about stopping ag fertilizer from getting into waterways. 2 things stand out: 1. Make ditches act more like creeks (w/ flood plains). 2. Cover crops rule. Good news for a place I lived near thru most of my 20s. https://t.co/04NdiWpb9k

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