Tag: grief

Full Moon Update: Refusing to Pave Over Our Hearts 🌍 Solidarity With Palestine and All Liberation Struggles

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

“i will pray with dignity for the absolute freedom of all humansfrom hatred and the myth of separation…”~adrienne maree brown (see full poem here) Dear Wild Nature Hearts, I’m sitting near the top of Mt. Shasta as I write this. I arrived last night, seeking… Continue Reading “Full Moon Update: Refusing to Pave Over Our Hearts 🌍 Solidarity With Palestine and All Liberation Struggles”

Category: UncategorizedTags: ceasefire, free gaza, grief, israel, liberation, palestine

🌕MOON IS WITNESS

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Today Moon does not look away. Today Moon bears witness. Today Moon lends light to grief and the things we would hide.Today Moon is beautiful and illuminates the horror. 🌕Shining equally on all, there is no fleeing anymore. 🌕Shining on the children in the rubble who… Continue Reading “🌕MOON IS WITNESS “

Category: UncategorizedTags: darkness, don’t look away, free Palestine, full moon, gaza, grief, israel, light, palestine, war, war crimes, witness

Honoring Our Love and Pain for the World Gathering

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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We will gather to Honor Our Love and Pain for the World. It will be part council circle where we share our truths about things on the tip of our hearts, part simple grief ritual, witnessing and being witnessed in grief and other energies together, lending our tears & laughter to the watershed; and part eco-art and ecosensual exploration, getting curious about earthy joy/pleasure to root our work/play in the world.

Category: UncategorizedTags: ecotherapy, grief, love, nature connection, work that reconnects

May the sun behind veils and grief behind masks be invitations to new intimacies and wild remembrances

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Ryan Van Lenning

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May the sun behind veils and grief behind masks be invitations to new intimacies and wild remembrances. May we smuggle in contraband questions under cover of haze.

Could we weave our grief, unknowingness, sacred rage, and delicate unthwartable longings into previously undared and shared possibilities?

Category: UncategorizedTags: california fires, fires, grief, oregon fires, the great turning, uncertainty

Ecogrief Circles: Honoring Our Pain and Resiliency in the Era of Climate Crisis

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Ryan Van Lenning

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How nourishing to witness and be witnessed in our difficult (and joyful) emotions in circle and ritual, cultivating earth community, and sharing ways of taking care of ourselves and engaging in empowering action.

Category: Uncategorized, work that reconnetsTags: climate crisis, ecogrief, ecotherapy, grief, the great turning, the work that reconnects