Think about rituals each season to celebrate the arrival of spring or the harvest, think about rituals of gratitude and abundance each day to remember where our food came from or who was involved in cultivating the earth.

Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural... See more

What if we could embody a different relationship with time ? If we took other images from our world - spirals, zig-zags, rhizomes, crystals, the folds of a midnight flower, the pulsing undulations of the jellyfish - and allowed our narratives of becoming and transformation (personal or otherwise) to follow those contours and weaves, those meta... See more

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

the human heart—and the process of the human heart returning—not a human heart who understands everything and holds all the seeds of wisdom for the new world and the new era inside of it. No, that’s arrogance. But a human heart who is learning again how to be. Because we as individuals, we as human hearts, we as spiritual hearts, we can be like... See more

This is why I have been turning my attention toward the seasons so devotedly these past many years, keeping my field notebooks: to draw myself closer to the earth’s cycles whose disruption is, in fact, the most important story of our time; to keep myself centered; to not turn away from the story of these ancient cycles, even as they are unraveling;... See more