Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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connecting with nature

Finding beauty in tough times

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Transcript I think back to the early months after the 2016 election. Sleepless nights. Shock. We had a feeling about what was coming, and we were not wrong. In the middle of those early weeks, I started posting a nature photo every day on Facebook. Out of my decades of sunsets and birds and mountains…  Read More…

Love in a time of catastrophe

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Transcript: So, how do we deal with the fatigue that sets in during a time like this? How do we possibly grieve 170,000 deaths in this country from a pandemic? Not to mention the daily assault on truth by this administration? Lies that are easy enough to disprove, but the torrent of them wears on…  Read More…

Finding the way of the heart

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Transcript Many years ago, when I lived in California, I went camping one weekend in Pinnacles National Park. The park was only a national monument then, and hardly anyone was there. Pinnacles has some spectacular hikes, and one of them leads to the very tops of those tall rocky spires. I remember climbing up and…  Read More…

Listening to nature

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Transcript I’ll never forget the day that I learned that nature can talk to us. And I don’t mean in the metaphorical* sense, like seeing a tree and seeing orange leaves announce that fall is coming. Or clouds announcing that the weather is going to change. Yes, every part of nature speaks that way. But…  Read More…

Cracks of possibility

Happy Solstice and blessed holidays to all, whatever special days you celebrate! As the sun sets over these short days, I sink into a cushion of gratefulness that Tim and I made a big change this year and moved to the tropics, where there are nearly eleven hours of daylight every day—even this week, during…  Read More…

It’s all mercy

What happens when we see ourselves as separate from or a part of nature? The Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago is asking this question. Invited to respond, I found myself remembering a little Mouse and how her life experience challenges all my favorite assumptions about merit and success and who deserves what. We say…  Read More…