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Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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20. Finding sweetness in bitterness

January 8, 2021

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…

Tagged With: Angela Davis, Bandy X. Lee, Black Lives Matter, consolation in nature, divine discontent, evolution, fossil fuel divestment, good trouble, healing power of nature, nature's healing power, pandemic, prison abolition, public mental health, tree science, winter

 

18. A crocodile, a virus, and the false promise of supremacy

November 20, 2020

Transcript As the pandemic rages now through the heartland, I’m trying hard to understand how so many people in this country can be so convinced that this coronavirus is not real—even some people who are dying of it. Maybe you heard the interview this week with a nurse in South Dakota who says the some…  Read More…

Tagged With: COVID denial, COVID hoax, delusion, denial, food chain, human supremacy, humility, Jonathan Metzl, pandemic, predation, predator, predator-prey relationship, prey, racism, struggle for survival, supremacy, survival, Val Plumwood, virus, white supremacy

 

15. Reimagining community

October 2, 2020

Transcript So this coronavirus is a great demystifier. It’s pulling aside the curtain on fractures in our society, the weak places that keep us from pulling together as a community during a pandemic. Fractures like racism and inequality. And today I’d like to talk about something that underlies all the weak points, and that is…  Read More…

Tagged With: authoritarianism, building community, climate change, climate crisis, community, conformity, hierarchy, Indigenous concepts of community, individual, individual vs. community, individualism, individuality, masks, mass marketing, pandemic, refusing to wear masks

 

6. Finding the way of the heart

July 10, 2020

Transcript Many years ago, when I lived in California, I went camping one weekend in Pinnacles National Park. The park was only a national monument then, and hardly anyone was there. Pinnacles has some spectacular hikes, and one of them leads to the very tops of those tall rocky spires. I remember climbing up and…  Read More…

Tagged With: awareness without words, connecting with nature, dropping into the heart, dropping out of the head, following the heart, following the mind, listening, mental approach, mind, open heart, opening the heart, pandemic, panoramic view, way of the heart

 

5. On masks and fear and a truer story of nature

July 3, 2020

Transcript What a time we’re living through! A time we couldn’t imagine just a few months ago, when we used to hug each other! And leave the house without wearing a mask! Here in Hawai’i everyone took the virus very seriously from the start. People sheltered in place. Medical people set up testing sites and…  Read More…

Tagged With: climate change, climate denial, courage, death, denial, dying, equality, fear of nature, grief, illness, insulated from nature, loss, masks, opening the heart, pandemic, race, reconciling with nature, refusing to wear masks, science denial, story of nature, virus, vulnerability, white privilege, white supremacy

 

Seeing each other through

March 20, 2020

The Haleakalā crater in daylight is a swirling abstraction of grays and tans, ochers, and chocolates. In late afternoon, fog typically creeps up the mountainside and peeks over the rim, casting fantastic shadows, ready to pour into the crater and flood it entirely at the end of the day. Haleakalā is “the house of the…  Read More…

Tagged With: climate change, COVID-19, epidemic, Haleakalā, pandemic, quarantine, resilience, social distancing

 

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