Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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climate change

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…

Everything is alive and we are all relatives

Transcript “Everything is alive, and we are all relatives.” The sentence showed up in an essay I read this week by a Native Hawaiian philosopher named Manulani Aluli Meyer. Manulani was quoting a teacher of hers who said that this one sentence, with its two simple ideas, is what Indigenous peoples from around the world…  Read More…

On masks and fear and a truer story of nature

Transcript What a time we’re living through! A time we couldn’t imagine just a few months ago, when we used to hug each other! And leave the house without wearing a mask! Here in Hawai’i everyone took the virus very seriously from the start. People sheltered in place. Medical people set up testing sites and…  Read More…

What about that cheatgrass?

So my friend Jeannie, who works in land conservation, reminded me last week: A long time ago, you and I had a conversation about cheatgrass. I maintained that it was noxious and provided no nourishment while depleting scarce water resources and taking over where native plants would have thrived. You said that all plants have…  Read More…