Wild Nature Heart
Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
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Let the Season Season You
The season has its own wisdoms. Here on the North Coast of California, autumn is beginning to gather us inward. I feel the tug with a little more force today as temperatures drop and the rain shifts from last weekโs gentle invitation to todayโs… Continue Reading “Let the Season Season You”
Gratuitous Re-Enchantment as Surthrival Strategy
For the past twelve months, Iโve been hosting a peculiar little celebration. Each month, I invite people to tune into a different more-than-human kin or elemental presence. Weโve celebrated Pollinators and Soil, Sun and Moon, Water and Fire, Darkness and Decomposers, Fungi and Feathered… Continue Reading “Gratuitous Re-Enchantment as Surthrival Strategy”
A Little Messy, Like the Forest Floor in Fall
What announces autumn’s arrival to your body? For me, it’s that first alder leaf, those first rains, and the fungal people pushing up from the underworld. Perhaps like you, I create a seasonal altar every autumn. A little ceremony of remembering, releasing, honoring, and… Continue Reading “A Little Messy, Like the Forest Floor in Fall”
UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation
Referendum from the mycelial undergroundโThe forest has voted YES.Motion carried overwhelmingly by spore majority. This beautiful bolete emerged practically overnight. Itโs one of the bruising boletes, whose golden pores turn dark almost immediately upon touch, through the sudden oxidation of compounds within its tissues.… Continue Reading “UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation”
Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.
Spend sufficient time among redwood, stone, and lichen elders and Empire begins to feel like a temporary administrative error, or a nervous system glitch. A futile attempt at paving overand filling up with all the wrong things. A hungry ghost.An ungrieved wound.Maybe one day… Continue Reading “Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.”
10 Invitations for Living Earth Day in Every Moment
โThe planet does not need more successful people.The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.โโ David Orr, Ecological Literacy Earth Day is not a date. Itโs 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”
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”
Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life
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”
Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies
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”
For Those Who Listen to Earth
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”
Re-enchantment and Gratitude Day – Darkness
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”
8 Books Flying and Chirping
8 books flying and chirping like pacific wren singing up the sun. Three fledglings (at bottom, Moon one not shown) needing a couple more worms before flight. A few more still in the nest, including the composting empire Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Riverever. Feels… Continue Reading “8 Books Flying and Chirping”
From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement
Introduction to From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement
10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
๐Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (rooted in deep time, reciprocity, humility, gratitude, love, enchantment, animist relationality) ๐Slow 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”
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
โ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฆ๐ค๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ด๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด.โ โ ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ช Itโs been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. Iโm happy to have both tended the delicious darkness & liminal rest and… Continue Reading “POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS”
๐10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
Happy Earth Day and full moon vibes, beautiful beasts! Of course, we don’t just live on Earthโwe are OF Earth. With Earth. We ARE Earth. There is no separation. May we all fall in love with each leaf and dew drop, each dawn and… Continue Reading “๐10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS”
What to Learn From an 11,000 Year-old Elder?
If youโve been in the Mojave and Sonora deserts you know creosote bushes are ubiquitous.ย Creosote plays a pivotal role in the desert ecosystem as a keystone species. Creosote has earned the title of โnurse plant,โ helping many young cacti and other plants to establish,… Continue Reading “What to Learn From an 11,000 Year-old Elder?”
From the Life Mat
From the Life Mat: ๐ Feed beauty, starve the Beast ๐ Forage imaginal possibilities beyond the hungry ghost energy of Empire ๐ You are here to tend the Sacred ๐ Court your radiant rage as a more-than-human wisdom ๐ Refusing to be well-adjusted to a sick society is a… Continue Reading “From the Life Mat”
In deep conversation with the Magic of the world
From the Life mat this morning ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ INHALEMay all beings be who they really arewithout restriction or fear.May we stretch our starlight imagination beyond its binary rusty cages.May your liberation be my liberation.May we spend our unearned privilege in the service of Life and… Continue Reading “In deep conversation with the Magic of the world”
THRUM Circles of the Great Re-Membering
THRUMย Circlesย are gatherings for cultivating a community of inquiry, practice, andย emergent wisdom in the ongoing Great Turning, sometimes calledย the Great Re-Membering or The Great Composting.ย Hosted on the full and new moon, each gathering will be anchored by a theme, and include space for council circle,… Continue Reading “THRUM Circles of the Great Re-Membering”
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