Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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Finding sweetness in bitterness

Transcript Many years ago a Turkish Sufi teacher named Baba gave me a word of advice. I was at a turning point in my life, facing a tough choice, one that was bound to feel bitter no matter what. Baba looked at me with shining eyes and said, “In life, there is always sweetness and…  Read More…

Filling the hungry with good things: A Christmas meditation

Transcript I can still say the words from memory—Luke 2:1–20, King James Version, the verses I recited for the Christmas program at church when I was in grade school. It’s the story of the baby in the manger and the shepherds and the angels. Recently I took another look at the Christmas story in Luke,…  Read More…

A crocodile, a virus, and the false promise of supremacy

Transcript As the pandemic rages now through the heartland, I’m trying hard to understand how so many people in this country can be so convinced that this coronavirus is not real—even some people who are dying of it. Maybe you heard the interview this week with a nurse in South Dakota who says the some…  Read More…

The law is in the ground

Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Indigenous man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that…  Read More…

Loving the Earth: A new traditional value

Transcript I’m listening hard these days to voices that have a lot to say about the Earth crises we’re in. Voices that are sharing a wealth of ideas about where to go from here. Many of those voices belong to Indigenous people and young people. And what I hear from all of them sounds something…  Read More…

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…