We talk about somatics in relation to nature, land, therapy, and the earth’s rhythms. But what about this pixelated ecosystem, the one we inhabit for hours each day? The digital world is not neutral. It’s also an environment. It has weather and currents, weeds and nutrients, toxins and compost. It is, in its own strange way, an ecology.

I am re-evaluating all the gardens in my life: digital, physical, relational, spiritual.

Each one with its own seasons, its own weeds, its own ritual of tending. And I’m realizing the digital is no less real than the earth beneath my feet. It has its own ecology, its own rhythms, its own demands for compost.

So I ask myself, and maybe you too:

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