Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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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…

Natural spirits

In a recent interview on 13.7, NPR’s opinion blog about “Cosmos and Culture,” theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser says, Spirituality is a word that has been kidnapped by religion and that invokes the existence of supernatural spirits and the like. He sees things differently: I use the word in a very different way, as an expression…  Read More…

The terror of letting go

A reader, Gwen, commented about the terror that arises when a person gives up old certainties. Here’s how I felt that fear in a new way. A few months ago I received an email from a friend I’ve known for decades. I’ll fuzz the details here to blur her identity. Recently, after raising a family,…  Read More…