Tag: autumn

Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day: Decomposers

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Ryan Van Lenning

Every first Saturday of the month we are inviting people to celebrate Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Days, and offer invitations for blessings, practices, and poetry honoring a beloved being or aspect of nature. This month we honor our more-than-human kin who specialize in decomposition: Decomposers… Continue Reading “Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day: Decomposers”

Category: UncategorizedTags: autumn, awe, bacteria, beetles, decay, decomposers, decomposition, detritivoress, enchantment, fungi, gratitude, slugs, soil

MYSTERY OF RED

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: UncategorizedTags: anthocyanicin, apple, autumn, madrone, mystery, pomegranite, pyracantha, red, witch's hat

Honoring the Season

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Moments like equinox and solstice are great markers of transition from one season to another; yet we know the energies of transformation are always afoot, wearing different garbs and guises. There’s the change we want. And there’s the change we don’t. Regardless, change IS. Sometimes… Continue Reading “Honoring the Season”

Category: Newsletter, UncategorizedTags: autumn, honor the season, nature, presence, September, the great turning, threshold, Transition

Wild Nature Heart October Update

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Dear Wild Nature Hearts, A few days ago, I woke up feeling overwhelmed. I sensed my imagination waning. Perhaps you can relate to that sensation of constriction that can arise when you’ve been digesting too much about climate catastrophes, shameless capitalist exploitation and commodification,… Continue Reading “Wild Nature Heart October Update”

Category: Newsletter, UncategorizedTags: autumn, co-liberation, ecotherapy, Imagination, liberation, mycelium, nature, poetry, Slow, slug, the great turning

Equinox Blessings: Embracing the Season

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Ryan Van Lenning

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I have to admit, autumn is my favorite season. But I may say that at the beginning of every season. 🙂 I wasn’t always like that, I would often resist the changing of seasons in various subtle ways inside. Perhaps it was a reflection… Continue Reading “Equinox Blessings: Embracing the Season”

Category: UncategorizedTags: autumn, change, deep belonging, fall equinox, harvest, letting go, Nature As Mirror, presence, reconnect, rewild, seasons