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Tag: grief
Time to Touch It
Modernity is the refusal to be in touch.—Bayo Akomolafe A small glimpse from Watershed, a collection of poems about grief, kinship, witness, and return. This poem, “Time to Touch It,” lives near the center of the book’s inquiry: what happens when grief can no longer remain… Continue Reading “Time to Touch It”
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”
Co-Weaving Words Beyond Empire
Something we do in some of the Wild Nature Heart classes is an activity called Co-Weaving Words: collect a handful of resonant words/phrases from each participant then create collective poems from this basket of words, using mostly only these words, like ingredients in a… Continue Reading “Co-Weaving Words Beyond Empire”
From Inside These Wild Ones and Other Foraged Goodies
This summer I released 4 collections of earthy poetry. The first two are books 2 and 3 of the Re-Membering Poetry series. The third, Trust the Ceremony, is one I’ve been excited about for a while, and released 8 years to the day I… Continue Reading “From Inside These Wild Ones and Other Foraged Goodies”
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.”
Full Moon Update: Refusing to Pave Over Our Hearts 🌍 Solidarity With Palestine and All Liberation Struggles
“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”
🌕MOON IS WITNESS
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 “
Honoring Our Love and Pain for the World Gathering
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.
May the sun behind veils and grief behind masks be invitations to new intimacies and wild remembrances
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?
Ecogrief Circles: Honoring Our Pain and Resiliency in the Era of Climate Crisis
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.
We Hurt Because We Love and Belong
Pain, grief, and other sometimes difficult emotions are part of the Earth’s feedback mechanism. And Grief was always meant to held in community.
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PAIN
Then we told the hard truth—about the state of the world, about the state of our emotions.
BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD IT ALL
This is for the crack that lets the light in, for trusting our wild heart bigness, for saying YES, we will feel the grief, we will mourn, because our wild nature hearts are in love with the world, and they are big enough to hold it all.
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