Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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The freedom of the wind

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Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  Read More…

Finding the way of the heart

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Transcript Many years ago, when I lived in California, I went camping one weekend in Pinnacles National Park. The park was only a national monument then, and hardly anyone was there. Pinnacles has some spectacular hikes, and one of them leads to the very tops of those tall rocky spires. I remember climbing up and…  Read More…

On masks and fear and a truer story of nature

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Transcript What a time we’re living through! A time we couldn’t imagine just a few months ago, when we used to hug each other! And leave the house without wearing a mask! Here in Hawai’i everyone took the virus very seriously from the start. People sheltered in place. Medical people set up testing sites and…  Read More…

Listening to nature

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Transcript I’ll never forget the day that I learned that nature can talk to us. And I don’t mean in the metaphorical* sense, like seeing a tree and seeing orange leaves announce that fall is coming. Or clouds announcing that the weather is going to change. Yes, every part of nature speaks that way. But…  Read More…

Becoming family

Transcript Many years ago I met the Chickasaw poet and writer Linda Hogan at a conference. We fell to talking, and I told her about the memoir I was writing. The working title was A Wider Circle of Friends, and I told her it was about my lifelong journey toward becoming more aware of the…  Read More…

Making a dragonfly friend

  Transcript We were living on Lopez Island, off the Washington coast, in a cabin under fir trees, and every day we took a walk up our dirt road. The walk was a habit our Bodhi had instilled in us for the ten years he was with us, and he was such a persuasive teacher…  Read More…