Category: human nature relationship
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From Gaia: 9-13-22
Dipping yourself in these words from the Great Mother can be so very nourishing, especially if you invite yourself into stillness, first. A quiet space, a few focused breaths…. You have noticed more disquiet in my patterns, my rhythms, dearest ones. You have noticed more disquiet in your own patterns and rhythms. Of course. We…
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PSA (Planetary Service Announcement)
As citizens of our various countries, we can speak out with our actions and dollars and advocacy. As living members of local and global ecosystems, we have the power to choose and act on behalf of thriving for all beings. The vital energy of all living beings on this earth support us. One person, one…
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Why listen to the wild?
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore As a child, I used to climb the huge white pine tree next to our home. I’d cling to the trunk like a little girl barnacle as the wind blew and the tree swayed. I was convinced tree and sky…
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When Wild Calls, How Will You Answer?
The earth calls me. Invites me to slip into perhaps my last winter cocoon of silence this season. Just a brief two weeks from the spring equinox, as the soft white sky drifted earthwards in flocks of crystalline fragments she whispered, “Settle in with me, sweet sister. Spiral inward one more time. Listen…listen…listen…” In a…
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Because we are nature.
With studies supporting the benefits, time in nature as self-care has moved into mainstream consciousness. Especially these days as we are witnessing or experiencing nationally or globally distressing events. Getting people back into nature is a good thing. Unquestionably good. Yet, I have such mixed feelings about how we’re talking about it. With its move into mainstream consciousness,…
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Meet the neighbors
Earth Day – at its best – is a state of being that self perpetuating, much like life. It inspires worldview shifts and action. What it inspired in me today was the urge to listen deeply to the ecosystem where I live. To better know this place, so I can make more aware choices and…
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midnight planning {poem}
the moon and the great horned owl met at midnight I wish I spoke moon or owl or even night they sounded content, as though a dinner party they were planning was coming together nicely and they could rest easy in skies and nests knowing their work was well done I envy them their contentment.…