Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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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…

Meeting a Spirit Helper

Transcript So I want to talk about something that’s really hard to talk about. Partly because it’s so personal, and partly because it’s so easily misunderstood. The experience is meeting one’s Spirit Helper. Since I already wrote all the details of how it happened, what I’d like to highlight here is the experience itself—what it…  Read More…

Opening to beauty

The scene above interrupted our dinner one recent evening, the sunset glow too beautiful to do anything but stare. We stopped eating and simply looked. Long golden rays kissed the tips of chamisa and rose and wild hyssop and Russian sage in our garden while at the same moment lighting up the Sandia Mountains a…  Read More…

This is a time

Here is my Letter to America including all the original links—each link a shout-out and thank-you to the writer, civil rights worker,  water protector, scientific researcher, or philosopher who provided inspiration. The letter first appeared in Terrain.org’s Letter to America series. Dear America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words…  Read More…

Letter to America, Martin Luther King Day 2017

Since the election Terrain.org is hosting a “Letter to America” series from writers coming to terms with the present political moment. Here is my contribution. Dear America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words so bold they clearly belong to a different time than our own. For we could never…  Read More…