Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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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…

A graceful heart: John Lewis and the power of soul-force

Transcript This week the we are remembering the great Representative John Lewis. Which has led me back to his interview some years ago with Krista Tippett of On Being. It was an hour I will never forget—I was eating a packed lunch in my car, parked in a deserted lot behind a bank, hooked up…  Read More…

Meeting a Spirit Helper

Transcript So I want to talk about something that’s really hard to talk about. Partly because it’s so personal, and partly because it’s so easily misunderstood. The experience is meeting one’s Spirit Helper. Since I already wrote all the details of how it happened, what I’d like to highlight here is the experience itself—what it…  Read More…

The freedom of the wind

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…