Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature Spirit

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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29. Where did we go wrong?

Transcript It’s a question many people are asking these days: How did we get so disconnected from nature? So that we can damage the very web of life? Where did we go wrong? It’s a good question to ask because answering it might help us figure out how to change course. And we do need…  Read More…

28. Seeing each leaf

Transcript Many years ago an anthropology student was doing his fieldwork among the Yurok people, living with them on the border between California and Oregon, along the Klamath River. The student later wrote that the Yurok people educated him in a similar way as they would educate their own children—that is, offering almost no direct…  Read More…

27. An entwined place

Transcript “The world is an entwined place.” It’s one of the most evocative, and most profound, sentences I’ve ever heard. It comes from Dr. Teresa Ryan, of the Gitlan tribe of Tsimshian Nation of the Pacific Northwest coast. To name the world “an entwined place” goes to the heart of all our current crises, from…  Read More…

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…