Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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26. What’s good for creeks

Transcript Twenty years ago this summer I started something new. Something I had no idea how to do. It was related to the creek that ran beside our house in Oakland. I’d moved onto the property a few years before, charmed by the old house on a steep hill and especially by the seasonal creek…  Read More…

25. Why doesn’t everyone love diversity?

Transcript We step down the slope of wet sand. Today the waves are small, breaking in soft foam around our ankles. We wade in deeper, settle our snorkel masks on our faces, and lift our feet from the sand, floating toward our local reef. My eyes roam over the rolling stretches of coral below us….  Read More…

24. A duty of care

Transcript “A duty of care.” I ran across the phrase this week in a book I was reading, To Speak for the Trees, by the botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. In the book Diana talks about growing up in Britain and Ireland—how she was orphaned at the age of twelve and then how her mother’s people, who…  Read More…

23. Going on a spirit journey

Transcript So I want to talk more about prayer or meditation on a path of nature spirituality. Of course on this path there are many possible kinds of prayer and meditation, but today I’d like to focus on one in particular: the practice of going on a spirit journey. I want to talk about this…  Read More…

22. An inheritance problem

Transcript A long time ago there lived a very wealthy man who owned vast estates. The story says that he was a ruler, or government official, and this is how we know he was a landowner, because in his time and place, to have a seat in government you had to own land, and lots…  Read More…

21. Committing to your hunger

Transcript If you’ve ever watched a nature documentary, you’ve seen a clip of it—a lion with muscles rippling sweeping across the savanna toward a zebra or gazelle. The lion is fully committed to the chase, bursting into top speed at a moment’s notice to satisfy their hunger. When it comes to getting their food, animals…  Read More…