I have always loved to travel. When I think back to some of the travels of my youth, I can see that long before my interest in fermentation began in earnest, traveling primed me to think about fermentation in ways that I likely would not have otherwise. As a...
Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. –Robin Wall Kimmerer What saddens me is that with each passing year, we seem to be less able to dance...
IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, the climate activist Tim DeChristopher sat down with Wendell Berry. Berry is a poet and activist, author of over forty books, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, a 2013 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a...
Charlotte Du Cann talks with the poet and ecological storyteller Sophie Strand, about interstitial thinking, unruly connections and how to hold a 'deep life' practice. With mycelial artwork by Graeme Walker. Her words caught my eye: a lament for a robin, its wing like...
It seems like every day a new guru, spiritual teacher, or self-help sovereign gets outed for sexual misconduct and harmful behavior. The followers of these people float off, betrayed and ungrounded, tugged between a desire for instruction and an increasing suspicion...
I bought my first tackle box at Paul’s Tackle Shop on Talbot Street in Ocean City, Maryland, in 1972. It’s blue and made by a company called Old Pal. Some internet research suggests that Old Pal went out of business in the 1980s, but Paul’s Tackle Shop is still going...
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. ––Terry Tempest Williams Emerging from...
It was after ten o’clock at night, and I was returning to my cabin nestled amid the redwood trees at a retreat center in the hills above Santa Cruz. I had been teaching a class on writing called “The Root Voice,” and I was ready for sleep. But the air was warm, the...
This podcast originally appeared: https://leadwithnature.libsyn.com/FREE RECORDED PROGRAM How to be a Bird Whisperer: A Free WebinarDan Gardoqui is a nature-based consultant, skilled mentor, bird language expert, certified wildlife tracker with over 30 years...
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. —Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe On the edge of the barranca, behind the 1970s Southern California suburb where I was a...
