Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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49. Just Listening
As if the surest foundation for life is none at all, just listening. Simply listening.
Apr 13, 2024
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One Audacious Résumé
How an undiagnosed autistic person stumbled into a life of editing
Mar 28, 2024
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48. What if Land Were Not Property?
To boldly imagine—as a spiritual practice
Mar 16, 2024
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47. Trusting the Waters of Life
On rivers, the secret river, and what one very early project to drain a lake can tell us about both
Feb 4, 2024
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46. Star Light, Star Bright
Looking up and opening the heart at the Solstice
Dec 21, 2023
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44. You're the Fish
On Rumi and writing and those transformations we might not at first welcome
Oct 4, 2023
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41. Why Is the World So Beautiful?
A gift of a question from Robin Wall Kimmerer, and more on the science of awe
Jun 24, 2023
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39. The Knowing Inside
It's hard to listen to your own heart in a world that demands you listen to everyone else first
Apr 14, 2023
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.