Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

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the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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Crocheting for Earth: What one person can do about climate change

First in a new series! Climate change is so huge that it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and think that no one person can change anything. Yet individuals can and do make a difference. Each person we’ll meet in this series is ushering change forward in some way appropriate to them. So borrow inspiration from their…  Read More…

It’s all mercy

What happens when we see ourselves as separate from or a part of nature? The Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago is asking this question. Invited to respond, I found myself remembering a little Mouse and how her life experience challenges all my favorite assumptions about merit and success and who deserves what. We say…  Read More…

Opening to beauty

The scene above interrupted our dinner one recent evening, the sunset glow too beautiful to do anything but stare. We stopped eating and simply looked. Long golden rays kissed the tips of chamisa and rose and wild hyssop and Russian sage in our garden while at the same moment lighting up the Sandia Mountains a…  Read More…

What can one person do about climate change?

Supercharged hurricanes in the Southeast and millions of acres ablaze in the West—all amplified, we now know, because of climate change. Yet most of us feel powerless in the face of an issue so overwhelming. When it comes to climate change, what can one person do, anyway? A lot! Individuals do have power. It just…  Read More…

Tamed by a Bear is here!

Today is the official release date for Tamed by a Bear: Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self, from Counterpoint Press. The story I never thought would see the light of day has become a book! You can find more about the book here, or read the opening pages here. It feels a little unreal—partly because I haven’t…  Read More…