Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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37. The logic of sameness

Transcript There’s a poison seeping through America’s veins. It’s a poison that Germany knew in the 1930s and that other countries are struggling with now as well. It’s the poison of authoritarianism. Florida has passed laws to limit teaching about certain topics in schools—racism, African American history, gender identity, sexual orientation. The laws are worded…  Read More…

33. Being autistic

Transcript So about a year ago I learned something new about myself. I began to suspect that I’m autistic. So I approached a psychologist, and we had some meetings, and I took some tests. And when the meetings were done and the scores came back, the answer was yes. I’m autistic. Now as you can…  Read More…

20. Finding sweetness in bitterness

Transcript Many years ago a Turkish Sufi teacher named Baba gave me a word of advice. I was at a turning point in my life, facing a tough choice, one that was bound to feel bitter no matter what. Baba looked at me with shining eyes and said, “In life, there is always sweetness and…  Read More…

7. The freedom of the wind

Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  Read More…

The Law is in the ground

Of the many voices I included in Kissed by a Fox, one has stayed with me longer than just about any other. That voice belongs to Doug Campbell, an Aboriginal man from Australia who worked with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose. Campbell said in Rose’s Dingo Makes Us Human, You see that hill over there?…  Read More…

Snuggle for survival

The phrase leaped out at me—from the pages of Scientific American, no less. Martin Nowak, a mathematician, biologist, and director of a program in evolutionary theory at Harvard, was arguing that cooperation, not just competition, advances evolution. In Nowak’s words: Life is therefore not just a struggle for survival—it is also, one might say, a…  Read More…