I want to start by sharing a quote from the great, late Barry Lopez. And he wrote, “In this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical Earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and without embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world?”

Because this moment, to me, asks us to return to the most essential, not necessarily to come up with grand responses. Because if a response is not rooted in something that is real, then it is a response from the same space that caused it. And I really think that this process that is unfolding, that the seasons reflect, that our human heart knows... See more

And I always think that a story, if it is worth its salt, must almost always be rooted in something that you can see and you can taste and you can touch and you can hear in the living, breathing Earth with both the outer senses, and if you allow yourself to sink into it, the inner senses.