Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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38. With Autism It All Made Sense
Fitting the pieces together with a very late-in-life diagnosis
Mar 18, 2023
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37. The Logic of Sameness
Authoritarianism all the way back to the Roman Empire—and why it is fundamentally at odds with democracy, and with nature
Feb 17, 2023
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36. Living Your Animal
How animal morality could help us chart a better path through a pandemic
Nov 6, 2022
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35. What We Truly Burn For
On the power ordinary people have to limit climate change—more than we think!—especially if we make choices by honoring our deepest values
Sep 18, 2022
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34. Facing the Past
On dismantling inequality by facing the past—especially an ancient law code from 2000 BCE and its rules about class and gender hierarchy
Jul 8, 2022
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33. Being Autistic
On getting diagnosed in my 60s, reviewing life in light of new self-knowledge, and cutting through old stereotypes
May 15, 2022
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32. Kissed by a Fox: From the Audiobook Coming Soon!
Did I really get kissed by a fox? Yes, many times! How I got to know Rudy, the red fox at the wildlife rehab center
Apr 16, 2022
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31. Looking Toward the Dawn
How to discern changes based on old mindsets from changes that are truly fresh and new, inspired by an image from a meditative spirit journey
Mar 6, 2022
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30. Cultivating Nature Spirituality
Two simple—but not easy!—practices for beginning a spirituality of nature: opening the heart and widening the perception
Jan 28, 2022
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29. Where Did We Go Wrong?
On historian Lynn White's famous thesis about Western culture's disconnect from nature and how he didn't get the genesis quite right—literally
Dec 5, 2021
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28. Seeing Each Leaf
Insights from a Yurok man, shared with an anthropologist, for learning from the spirit of a tree
Oct 29, 2021
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27. An Entwined Place
On the web of connection linking all, inspired by words of Teresa Ryan (Tsimshian Nation) and the mycelium network that she and Suzanne Simard study
Sep 17, 2021
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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.