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New Poetry Collections! One Bright and Real Caress & From Inside These Wild Ones
It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended emergent spring seedlings and rallied some organizational gusto to get together a few new collections of poetry. I’m particularly thrilled about these two as they’ve wanting to find wings… Continue Reading “New Poetry Collections! One Bright and Real Caress & From Inside These Wild Ones”
10 Reasons to Participate in a Wilderness Rite-of-Passage Ceremony
Crossing the Threshold is a four-month sacred journey, combining expressive arts and nature connection and culminating in an on-the-land Wilderness Rite-of-Passage Ceremony. There’s still time to register—our first gathering is Monday night— when we will begin to gather twice a month online to connect,… Continue Reading “10 Reasons to Participate in a Wilderness Rite-of-Passage Ceremony”
Free Range Poetry Stand – Guttural Utterance of Holy Unknowing
After a long rainy winter, happy to put the free range poetry stand up again. It’s the little things. Poetry is one of my trampoline springs—along with friends, gardening, nature’s cycles, music, River, solidarity, teaching, silence, and birdsong—that’s keeping me buoyed in the midst… Continue Reading “Free Range Poetry Stand – Guttural Utterance of Holy Unknowing”
10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
🌏Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (rooted in deep time, reciprocity, humility, gratitude, love, enchantment, animist relationality) 🌏Slow down. Allow something new to emerge. Practice skills for building sky (spaciousness) & earth (grit) within (i.e. regulating our nervous system). Practice Erecting your No, stretching your… Continue Reading “10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS”
Free Info Session for Crossing the Threshold – Sunday, 6-7pm
Join us (Jillynn and Ryan) today (Sunday) form 6pm-7pm PST to learn more about the Crossing the Threshold Wilderness Rite-of-Passage/Expressive Arts Ecotherapy program. We’d love to meet you, jam on wilderness ceremony, expressive arts Ecotherapy, and answer any questions.RSVP and get Zoom link here.… Continue Reading “Free Info Session for Crossing the Threshold – Sunday, 6-7pm”
Practicing Unpaving – Flowing the Creative Life
n this week’s Write Your Wild River course, a truth landing in me deeper than before regarding what the course is really about: It’s ostensibly a course about poetry, but it’s really about walking each other home. It’s ostensibly about creative writing, but is… Continue Reading “Practicing Unpaving – Flowing the Creative Life”
🌞What is Emerging?
Equinox Blessings! – What is Emerging? Spring is emerging.New Life is emerging.The symphonies of pacific wren are emerging.Solidarity is emerging.Salmonberry flowers are emerging.Paved-over-grief is emerging.Free flowing rivers are emerging.Swamp lanterns are emerging.Buried rage is emerging.Unfurling ferns are emerging.Bison and butterfly nation are emerging.Collective Liberation… Continue Reading “🌞What is Emerging?”
Which Dr. King Will We Honor?
Which Dr. King will we honor and learn from this year: Will it be the agreeable, safe King that calls for service and nominal equality – or will it be the radical, fierce King who calls for questioning what he called the triple evils… Continue Reading “Which Dr. King Will We Honor?”
UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS
In addition to offering evergreen earth-rooted mentoring and ecotherapy, and custom wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony, I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of programs in the next few months. Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (starting tomorrow, Wednesday) was Wild Nature Heart’s first… Continue Reading “UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS”
POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS
“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘴.” – 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘪 It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended the delicious darkness & liminal rest and… Continue Reading “POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS”
HIBERNACULUM AND AN APPRENTICESHIP TO SLOW AND STILL
It seems that much of the OverCulture is a conspiracy against slowing down and resting. It sometimes is difficult to sever ourselves from the busyness and distractions epidemic, even in Winter. All the messages seem to say: MORE! What if we shaped out a… Continue Reading “HIBERNACULUM AND AN APPRENTICESHIP TO SLOW AND STILL”
Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day – Darkness
Dear Wild Nature Hearts, Saturday is this month’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day, when we honor DARKNESS. I love that it roughly coincides with December’s dark moon (black moon, December 30).🌚 Like so many other aspects of modern life, the OverCulture also paves over the season of… Continue Reading “Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day – Darkness”
THE BIG RHYTHM HOLDS IT ALL
Winter Solstice blessings! May we relish deep rest and be nourished by the slow gift of fruitful darkness, wooing and embracing the dark parts of us into the circle of Self. May we nurture the inner fire on our darkest nights. May we honor… Continue Reading “THE BIG RHYTHM HOLDS IT ALL”
MYSTERY OF RED
Oh the mystery of red in the world! These darkest weeks of the year evoking the brightest reds. Pomegranates, amanitas, witch’s hat, madrone berries, rose hips, apples, pyracantha, Russulas, maples, oh my! I Had a dream last night I Woke up in a Library… Continue Reading “MYSTERY OF RED”
FALL INFO CIRCLES
Join me this Saturday morning or Monday evening for a meet & greet to learn about the upcoming Wild Nature Heart programs: ❤️🔥WITHIN THE CAVE SOMETHING PULSES (6 Fridays, Dec. 13 – January 24) 💦 WRITE YOUR WILD RIVER: A 6-WEEK CREATIVE WRITING & NATURE CONNECTION (two classes: Saturdays… Continue Reading “FALL INFO CIRCLES”
I’m wondering about those imaginal cells in the caterpillar’s dissolving body.
I’m wondering about those imaginal cells in the caterpillar’s dissolving body.I’m wondering about the fiercely significant rituals of care that hold the world together.I’m wondering about how to shape bottomless grief into postures that subsidize liberatory culture.I’m wondering about the vast chasm between progressive… Continue Reading “I’m wondering about those imaginal cells in the caterpillar’s dissolving body.”
What vows are you putting in your sacred basket today?
What vows are you putting in your sacred basket today? The vows that nudge us beyond Empire and the incarcerations of imagination imposed by settler colonial structures. For It’s killing us, it’s killing the world. It’s killing the planet. I learned from brontë velez… Continue Reading “What vows are you putting in your sacred basket today? “
Today is Re-enchantment & Gratitude Day – WATER
Today, for this month’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day, we honor Water as Life. As Being. As Source, not only resource. Water as Alive. Water as a template for intimacy with the animate web of life. Today we Listen with water, play with water, offer water our love and… Continue Reading “Today is Re-enchantment & Gratitude Day – WATER “
RE-ENCHANTMENT & GRATITUDE DAYS
Inspired by starting with gratitude, the first stage of the Work That Reconnects @workthatreconnects spiral, and ONE’s (@natureevolutionaries) annual gratitude ceremonies, we’re celebrating a monthly day of honoring a specific aspect of the more-than-human animate world. In our own landscapes and at our own pace, we… Continue Reading “RE-ENCHANTMENT & GRATITUDE DAYS”
DECLARATION OF INTER-DEPENDENCE
The old oppressive forms are dying away, and the new is emerging simultaneously. The Dominant/Dominator system is lashing out violently, and it may often feel like the new is not emerging fast enough and we feel overwhelmed or numbed by the state of things.… Continue Reading “DECLARATION OF INTER-DEPENDENCE”
💓The Great Shaking & Global Eco Intifada
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”—Murray Bookchin We know every intact culture has reverential practices around the turning of the season and honoring light and darkness. One way of holding the Solstice, this turn… Continue Reading “💓The Great Shaking & Global Eco Intifada”
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