Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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34. Facing the past

Transcript So I’d like to take a lesson today from the Aymara people. The Aymara are an Indigenous group from the Andes who have lived and farmed on the high plains for centuries. They experience the past and future differently than most other people do. For us English speakers—and for people in most of the…  Read More…

22. An inheritance problem

Transcript A long time ago there lived a very wealthy man who owned vast estates. The story says that he was a ruler, or government official, and this is how we know he was a landowner, because in his time and place, to have a seat in government you had to own land, and lots…  Read More…

19. Filling the hungry with good things: A Christmas meditation

Transcript I can still say the words from memory—Luke 2:1–20, King James Version, the verses I recited for the Christmas program at church when I was in grade school. It’s the story of the baby in the manger and the shepherds and the angels. Recently I took another look at the Christmas story in Luke,…  Read More…

17. The law is in the ground

Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Indigenous man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that…  Read More…