Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

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listening to nature

39. The knowing inside

Transcript There’s a story told by Abraham Maslow, the psychologist. Back in the 1930s, at the very start of his career, he did fieldwork among the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta. He wanted to test the idea of emotional security or insecurity across cultures. So he camped out for a summer on Blackfoot land and…  Read More…

11. Turning our faces into the water

Transcript We stand in waist-high waves and slip on our fins. The world around us is blue—a surface of rippling sapphire stretched out to the horizon. A lighter blue of sky above us, a few clouds drifting. We jiggle our masks one last time to make sure they’re in place and bite down on our…  Read More…

4. Listening to nature

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…