Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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54. Seeing Each Leaf as a Separate Thing
And why talking with trees is the start of real learning
Jan 17, 2025
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24. A Duty of Care
Four Indigenous voices on how their communities build care for land and people into the fabric of life—and how care dropped out of Western public values
May 28, 2021
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23. Going on a Spirit Journey
A spiritual practice to open the heart and deepen your connection with nature
Apr 9, 2021
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12. Love in a Time of Catastrophe
How connecting with nature opens the flow of love in the heart, inspired by an essay by Barry Lopez; plus, a few everyday practices for connecting with nature from home
Aug 21, 2020
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9. A Graceful Heart: John Lewis and the Power of Soul-Force
Powers of imagination, persistence, and action can be released by digging deep to find love, and John Lewis and civil rights workers did this work
Jul 31, 2020
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7. The Freedom of the Wind
In a world that is always becoming, always unpredictable, aligning with spirit means aligning with freedom
Jul 17, 2020
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What Is Natural? What Is Supernatural?
Rethinking nature, spirit, and love in our world
Jul 4, 2016
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.