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Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
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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”
Living Light – A Sun Re-Enchantment Day
All life is lit from the same old fire. It’s the power that drives the whole shebang. Giant sequoias. Great whales. Algae and bacteria at the base of the food web. Sun is the “force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” as… Continue Reading “Living Light – A Sun Re-Enchantment Day”
Introducing Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed
imaginal buds have arrivedand they are legion For a couple years these books have existed as scattered poems, field observations, river conversations, gargantuan griefs, delicious dreams, and improbable acts of hope. Now the first two THRUM books are emerging into the world. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is… Continue Reading “Introducing Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed”
Unauthorized Conversations with Awe
Even amid noise and numbness, busyness and overculture exhaustion,the world continues extending tiny invitations into participation. Awe keeps leaking through. The frog croaks from a hidden pond.The creek practices surrender beneath logs and around stones.Salmon waxcaps appear overnight, announcing: did you know mycelial fish… Continue Reading “Unauthorized Conversations with Awe”
Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire
For me, re-enchantment begins simply: stopping all my antics of disappearing and learning (again and again) how to pay attention. On a mad meander through the forest the other day, amid a tangle of fir, ceonothos, huckleberry and salal bushes, my friends and I… Continue Reading “Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire”
All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed
The old house of empire is groaning at the beams. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection written from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment—carrying wild kin, unraveling empires, deep-time trust, and the dangerous act of remaining openhearted in a burning world. Here’s a… Continue Reading “All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed”
Imaginal Buds Are Gathering
Over the past year, a body of work and play has been slowly crawling across the landscape. Some of you have already walked beside small pieces of it through courses, playshops, solstice circles, grief rituals, and scattered poems shared here and online. Now two… Continue Reading “Imaginal Buds Are Gathering”
No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back
We know that grief refuses to stay in its assigned lanes. It spills—across categories, across places and species, across distances we try to keep between things. It also accumulates, adding layers that thicken our lives. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a… Continue Reading “No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back”
10 Invitations for Living Earth Day in Every Moment
“The planet does not need more successful people.The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”― David Orr, Ecological Literacy Earth Day is not a date. It’s a way of being. Every day, week, month…every moment. A re-membering of our… Continue Reading “10 Invitations for Living Earth Day in Every Moment”
Saturday, May 2, We Celebrate Soil
Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Days are the first Saturday every month, and offer invitations for blessings, practices, and poetry honoring a being or aspect of nature. This month we joined the Pollination Party with our Pollinator Kin. Next month, May 2, we tune into the… Continue Reading “Saturday, May 2, We Celebrate Soil”
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Watershed Paperback
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Becoming Beautiful Barbarians Paperback
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Moon Has a Long Memory: A 13-month Lunatic Apprenticeship
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Kiss Me a Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: An Ecosensual Playshop
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