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The Sacred Art of Unmaking | Re-Enchantment Day for Decomposers
A year ago, we began our Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day journey with the Decomposers & Detritivores, those indispensable artists of unmaking and regeneration. Twelve months of astonishments, when we allow a little more of our attention to return to the living world. Twelve invitations… Continue Reading “The Sacred Art of Unmaking | Re-Enchantment Day for Decomposers”
From the Mycelial Underground: On death-eaters, liberatory enzymes, and the practice of feeding new worlds
Happy Fungi Friday! We are not immortal. Neither is Empire, nor the systems of severance and supremacy we inherited. Fungi have been choreographing the ancient art of turning endings into space for new beginnings for hundreds of millions of years. Many are saprotrophic, a… Continue Reading “From the Mycelial Underground: On death-eaters, liberatory enzymes, and the practice of feeding new worlds”
Soil of Us: On the timeline spell, the composting of Empire, and becoming good soil
A forest floor this rich doesn’t happen in a season. It’s been on my mind as November comes tip-toeing in with dark boots and a seasonal sigh, folding us into its ever-deepening pocket, and I begin a new cycle of Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Days… Continue Reading “Soil of Us: On the timeline spell, the composting of Empire, and becoming good soil”
What Vows Are You Casting Today? On voting, vowing, and gestating worlds beyond Empire
What’s that you say? Beneath the endless electoral noise, another conversation is always and already underway? What if casting a vote were also an occasion to reconsider and renew our deepest vows? The ballot box receives our choices within the given system. A sacred… Continue Reading “What Vows Are You Casting Today? On voting, vowing, and gestating worlds beyond Empire”
The Case for Retching: On Empire, Elder Owls, and the sacred gag reflex
Like you, I’m sick. We’re sick to our stomachs. Sick to our souls. We are relentlessly being asked to swallow things that our organism rejects: the lies of the patriarchal genocide class, the rigged menu of a mafia duopoly, the impunity of sexual predators,… Continue Reading “The Case for Retching: On Empire, Elder Owls, and the sacred gag reflex”
A Single Leaf – On autumn, the fall of Empire, and the ancient intelligence of endings
We are entering a threshold season: one of endings, descent, darkness, ancestors, and remembrance. This weekend marks Samhain and the astronomical cross-quarter day (midpoint between autumn equinox and solstice) arrives November 7. I love these reminders that we’re not merely passing through time, but… Continue Reading “A Single Leaf – On autumn, the fall of Empire, and the ancient intelligence of endings”
A Relative from Forever: First Fire of the Season
The season turns, and the hearthfire returns. Welcoming an elder back into the home. The first fire is also an ancient fire. Perhaps a first deity, our first altar. A relative from forever. Powerful, mysterious, enchanting. The first flamelets gobble their forest meal, growing… Continue Reading “A Relative from Forever: First Fire of the Season”
Let the Season Season You
The season has its own wisdoms. Here on the North Coast of California, autumn is beginning to gather us inward. I feel the tug with a little more force today as temperatures drop and the rain shifts from last week’s gentle invitation to today’s… Continue Reading “Let the Season Season You”
Gratuitous Re-Enchantment as Surthrival Strategy
For the past twelve months, I’ve been hosting a peculiar little celebration. Each month, I invite people to tune into a different more-than-human kin or elemental presence. We’ve celebrated Pollinators and Soil, Sun and Moon, Water and Fire, Darkness and Decomposers, Fungi and Feathered… Continue Reading “Gratuitous Re-Enchantment as Surthrival Strategy”
A Little Messy, Like the Forest Floor in Fall
What announces autumn’s arrival to your body? For me, it’s that first alder leaf, those first rains, and the fungal people pushing up from the underworld. Perhaps like you, I create a seasonal altar every autumn. A little ceremony of remembering, releasing, honoring, and… Continue Reading “A Little Messy, Like the Forest Floor in Fall”
Tell the Truth About the Season
What does it mean to honor the season we’re actually in, rather than the one we expected? Or the one we’re desperately trying to get to? Here on the North Coast of California, autumn has been reluctant to arrive in its familiar wet garments.… Continue Reading “Tell the Truth About the Season”
UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation
Referendum from the mycelial underground—The forest has voted YES.Motion carried overwhelmingly by spore majority. This beautiful bolete emerged practically overnight. It’s one of the bruising boletes, whose golden pores turn dark almost immediately upon touch, through the sudden oxidation of compounds within its tissues.… Continue Reading “UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation”
The Forgotten Ones: Meet the Lichen People for October’s Re-Enchantment Day
Every October, Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day turns its attention to the Forgotten Ones, those beings and aspects of the animate web of life we may have overlooked, or who don’t easily fit into the themes of other months. This year’s Forgotten Ones turned out… Continue Reading “The Forgotten Ones: Meet the Lichen People for October’s Re-Enchantment Day”
Naming Still Matters – On Place Names and the Ongoing Work of (De)Colonization on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
A year later, naming still matters. I wrote this reflection for Indigenous Peoples’ Day last year, exploring the relationship between naming, colonial erasure, land, memory, and liberation. I’m sharing it again today because the questions haven’t gone away. The realities they point to have… Continue Reading “Naming Still Matters – On Place Names and the Ongoing Work of (De)Colonization on Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
Come write your wild river – October 11
Since Riverever was released on the Equinox, I’ve been taking it on a little polyriverous pilgrimage. At each river, creek, lake, or other body of water I meet, I’ve been reading a poem aloud and sending a little love downstream. So far: my own… Continue Reading “Come write your wild river – October 11”
Riverever
River, I trust your journey. I’ve been mostly quiet about this one. Maybe appropriately: Rivers have their own timing. While Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed have been making their way into the world, this little creature has been quietly moving alongside them. RIVEREVER is… Continue Reading “Riverever”
Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.
Spend sufficient time among redwood, stone, and lichen elders and Empire begins to feel like a temporary administrative error, or a nervous system glitch. A futile attempt at paving overand filling up with all the wrong things. A hungry ghost.An ungrieved wound.Maybe one day… Continue Reading “Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.”
📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived
They arrived.They’re beautiful. I can’t wait to begin signing them. After years of wandering through notebooks, rivers, forests, grief, laughter, edits, and countless cups of fir tip tea, the first printed copies of Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed are finally here. In a couple… Continue Reading “📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived”
The Flowering Ones – Every blossom is an invitation
Just look at the costumes summer is adopting. August’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day has arrived, and this month we turn toward the Flowering Ones. Every blossom is an invitation. Not merely to admire beauty, but to enter more deeply into relationship with the blooming world. Every blossom we… Continue Reading “The Flowering Ones – Every blossom is an invitation”
Water: The Living Current – July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day
July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day guide is here, and this month we turn toward Water. Water as source. Water as kin. Water as current, carrier, teacher, shapeshifter, and living memory. This month’s issue, Water: The Living Current, invites us to enter more consciously into relationship with the… Continue Reading “Water: The Living Current – July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day”
Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat
Field Observation: Beautiful Barbarian (Homo imaginalis/Homo metamorphicus/barbari pulchri) Habitat: thresholds, ecotones, collapsing empires, mountain ridges, places where certainty grows thin, and possibly swells like summer fruit Known behaviors: composting inherited stories, practicing permeability, building altars from ordinary debris, tending beauty amid collapse, occasionally jumping… Continue Reading “Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat”
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