Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
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”
“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”
Often when we hear the word intimacy, we think romance. At the very least we think about humans. But what if intimacy with Earth was not only possible, but necessary for co-creating the world we want to inhabit and bequeath to future generations? For… Continue Reading “Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life”
I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of 2026 programs starting in February. They all explore re-belonging ourselves in the animate web of life, practicing our creative awesomeness, cultivating all dimensions of our wholeness, and embodying our purpose. If being part of… Continue Reading “Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies”
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have 10 poetry books out there, flitting about in the bushes and soaring in winter skies. This time last year there were just the two originals, that grew from my time in the forest and… Continue Reading “For Those Who Listen to Earth”
I am writing this pre-dawn in the stretched pregnant hour before the dance of the day, while stars are still singing soliloquies in the belly of night. I’m drinking the landscape with a warm cup of earthy fir tip/lichen/turkey tail tea, and before I light… Continue Reading “Re-enchantment and Gratitude Day – Darkness”
earth elder Joanna Macy is in her final days. She is in hospice space surrounded by family and friends. You can find updates at CaringBridge, and leave a message.
I feel moved to honor her and name a few of the many things I have learned from Joanna and her body of work and play, from her teaching, courage, transparency, and passion.
WILD NATURE HEART is: A Geo-Mystical CrackingA Hoof in Each DirectionA Bright Green TrustA Spiraling UpwardHeartbroken and WholeVulnerable and RobustA Tender and Savage PulseA Yes in the DarknessA Threshold of Unrelenting MysteryBright and Slow CaressA Strange Curiosities Tent at the Festival of Slow SurrenderingA… Continue Reading “WHAT WILD NATURE IS”
Though we try, we cannot flee our entanglements. The symphonies of howling disguise themselves as itching until we listen & accept them, offering refuge in our body-hearts. There’s no going back. We’ve relinquished mastery in favor of aspirational imaginaries beyond empire.