Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

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44. You’re the fish

Transcript So we begin today with some words from Rumi: Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. A decade ago I entered a period of transformation. Live long enough, and a few such times of change will catch up with you—often after a big loss, a death or…  Read More…

28. Seeing each leaf

Transcript Many years ago an anthropology student was doing his fieldwork among the Yurok people, living with them on the border between California and Oregon, along the Klamath River. The student later wrote that the Yurok people educated him in a similar way as they would educate their own children—that is, offering almost no direct…  Read More…

27. An entwined place

Transcript “The world is an entwined place.” It’s one of the most evocative, and most profound, sentences I’ve ever heard. It comes from Dr. Teresa Ryan, of the Gitlan tribe of Tsimshian Nation of the Pacific Northwest coast. To name the world “an entwined place” goes to the heart of all our current crises, from…  Read More…

7. The freedom of the wind

Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  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…