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Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire
For me, re-enchantment begins simply: stopping all my antics of disappearing and learning (again and again) how to pay attention. On a mad meander through the forest the other day, amid a tangle of fir, ceonothos, huckleberry and salal bushes, my friends and I… Continue Reading “Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire”
All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed
The old house of empire is groaning at the beams. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection written from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment—carrying wild kin, unraveling empires, deep-time trust, and the dangerous act of remaining openhearted in a burning world. Here’s a… Continue Reading “All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed”
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”
Love Against Empire
“May we love in ways that devastingly disrupt state violence.” ~Gabes Torres What does Love want in this moment? What work does it do? What does it serve? What are Love’s implications for navigating the path ahead? This V-Day we gather these questions in… Continue Reading “Love Against 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”
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”
Within the Cave Something Pulses – Poetry and Program
What if we allied ourselves to the energies of the season? What if we dove into the silent dark and welcomed the wholeness of who we are? What labyrinth wisdoms await? What dreams are fires in the dark? What if our shadow was an… Continue Reading “Within the Cave Something Pulses – Poetry and Program”
🌀Honoring Joanna Macy – Thank you
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.
10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
🌏Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (rooted in deep time, reciprocity, humility, gratitude, love, enchantment, animist relationality) 🌏Slow 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
“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘴.” – 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘪 It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended the delicious darkness & liminal rest and… Continue Reading “POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS”
Turn It Up
All rivers lead to a free Palestine and the end of U.S. Empire. Flow on. May all the dams break. All watersheds connect. Bombed schools & hospitals & refugee camps + beheaded babies + targeted journalists and poets + Palestinian men sodomized and tortured… Continue Reading “Turn It Up”
💚10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
Happy Earth Day and full moon vibes, beautiful beasts! Of course, we don’t just live on Earth—we 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 “💚10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS”
In deep conversation with the Magic of the world
From the Life mat this morning 🙇🏻♂️🌞 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
THRUM Circles are gatherings for cultivating a community of inquiry, practice, and emergent wisdom in the ongoing Great Turning, sometimes called the Great Re-Membering or The Great Composting. 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”
A Threshold Moment
I don’t think we have really grappled with the fact that the world is not what it was. We are in a new landscape. A threshold moment. We are in a revolutionary moment. A #composteverydamnthing moment. Things are afoot. Empire is dissolving. The emperor wears no… Continue Reading “A Threshold Moment”
Honoring the Season
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”
EARTH INTIMACIES
And when Grasshopper flies into your heart
their green gears grin
at all your precious purities.
You find yourself
no longer fearing
the depths of entangled love
NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation
I’m both tickled like a butterfly and hungry like a caterpillar for Wild Nature Heart’s new course/journey starting next month.
THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies and the Art of Transformation is a 6-week course journey dedicated to tending both our personal and collective thresholds with intention and heart. With the images of threshold crossing and caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation as guiding metaphors, we will deepen our ecospiritual practices, practice being present with the whole of what is at our doorstep, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging.
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Watershed Paperback — Preorder
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Becoming Beautiful Barbarians Paperback — Preorder
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Moon Has a Long Memory: A 13-month Lunatic Apprenticeship
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Kiss Me a Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: An Ecosensual Playshop
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