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A person can grow up being taught that a mountain is just a pile of rock, ready to be mined. Another person can grow up, taught that the mountain is an apu deity, able to direct their destiny. And the question isn’t about whether a mountain is a pile of rock or a life-altering spirit, but how these beliefs manifest themselves in culture— with... See more

The phrase "here and elsewhere" is used to convey that something is true or happening not only in the present location but also in other, unspecified locations.

“We can recognize that this deformation of new potential is taking place when we begin to question our ability, and especially our legitimacy to think, or act, or be.“

— Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.

Headwater is a portal. Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.

The extractive paradigm also expects you to heal that trauma, and come back to the system as a well-functioning member of society. And it pathologizes everyone who takes time or refuses to do so.

What feels true? Which words find resonance between your tissues?

But rarely do we feel safe while telling the truth that comes from our bodies. Especially, when truth is not allowed in our families, households, work, schools, societies. Today, people get arrested, sentenced, and killed for telling, writing, and publishing truth. And with them, dies a larger body of humanity. There is no future without people who... See more

artistic creation as an ecological practice