Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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14. Everything Is Alive and We Are All Relatives
On the philosophy shared by Indigenous people around the world; some wise words from Hawaiian philosopher Manulani Aluli Meyer; and how to open your heart to the land-community where you live
Sep 18, 2020
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13. Finding Beauty in Tough Times
On enjoying beauty even when the world is burning, inspired by the pianist of Theresienstadt, Alice Herz-Sommer; and how to find our own place in the beauty and Great Becoming of nature
Sep 4, 2020
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12. Love in a Time of Catastrophe
How connecting with nature opens the flow of love in the heart, inspired by an essay by Barry Lopez; plus, a few everyday practices for connecting with nature from home
Aug 21, 2020
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11. Turning Our Faces Into the Water
A whole other world carrying on just below the surface of the sea—and a rich metaphor for the split between matter and spirit in Western thought
Aug 14, 2020
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10. Just Like a Tree
If we wouldn't blame a tree for not thriving but instead give it the water and food it needs, why don't we do that for humans too? Especially in a pandemic?
Aug 7, 2020
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9. A Graceful Heart: John Lewis and the Power of Soul-Force
Powers of imagination, persistence, and action can be released by digging deep to find love, and John Lewis and civil rights workers did this work
Jul 31, 2020
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8. Meeting a Spirit Helper
How shocked I was in the predawn darkness of a winter morning to feel heard and seen, and what the process of going on a spirit journey (a shamanic-style journey) is like
Jul 24, 2020
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7. The Freedom of the Wind
In a world that is always becoming, always unpredictable, aligning with spirit means aligning with freedom
Jul 17, 2020
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6. Finding the Way of the Heart
In a society that follows the mind—thinking and planning and goal setting—what does it look like to follow the heart?
Jul 10, 2020
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5. On Masks and Fear and a Truer Story of Nature
What denial of a virus has to do with whiteness
Jul 3, 2020
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3. Becoming Family
A gently probing question from a friend leads me to shift my worldview toward kinship with naturea
Jun 19, 2020
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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.