Jun 2, 2020
As the fires of racism and injustice burn, how are you holding the pain of our imperiled world? (See below for antiracist resources) What’s on your heart as you witness the great unraveling of our economic, social, and ecological systems? Let’s remember the...
May 5, 2020
When you have been listening to it for a long time, the Language of Nature requires no translation. Recently, a bald eagle was riding a thermal outside my door. Two days later, I was hiking our local mountain with my mind stressing on running a business at tax time. ...
Apr 13, 2020
When the Europeans arrived in North America, the Algonquin tribes believed the newcomers were infected by a psychic virus that turned them into Wetikos. A Wetiko is an icy-hearted predatory monster consumed with a spirit of greed that cannibalizes life. Wetikos are...
Apr 13, 2020
My Teacher Bobby Lake-Thom (A.K.A Medicine Grizzly Bear) died this year. He was one of the last great Medicine Men in North America. He loved the old stories and published a collection of them. It feels appropriate to share one of his favorites: The Origin of Human...
Apr 7, 2020
Many indigenous cultures hold that the Earth is sentient and intelligent… Now cutting-edge science is coming to the same conclusion. For example, when pine trees get over-heated, they release aerosols that create clouds to deflect solar radiation. Tobacco plants...
Jan 22, 2020
How can conscious engagement with plants, with which we’ve co-evolved since the dawn of our species, support healing in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms and help mend our separation from nature? Three brilliant herbalists/botanists, long on the...
