Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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Reimagining community

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…

Everything is alive and we are all relatives

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…

Finding beauty in tough times

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…

Love in a time of catastrophe

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…

Turning our faces into the water

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…

Just like a tree

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…