The Myaamia call them Cecaahkwa, the Sandhill Cranes, our relations They had nesting grounds here in the Wabash River Valley hundreds of years ago These sacred birds are now making their way back to their spring and summer homes This is the time of Cecaahkwa Kiihswa the time of Sandhill Crane Moon …
People everywhere, young, middle-aged, and old, are sensing that the culture has gone haywire. It might be that we need a new story to live by. As part of our local Sacred Earth Learning Community, I recently communed with a brief writing by Theodore Richards titled “A New Story” in the book, Order of the …
Several months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump sent out a tweet misspelling “emergency” as “emergy”. Almost no one recognizes emergy as a real word, and so Trump was derided for his lack of attention to spelling. Although the current president isn’t likely aware of the meaning of the word emergy (often spelled with a …
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ Rilke
A cycle of giving, and exchange, and symbiosis. This is how I’ve largely come to see Nature in her most healthy functioning ways. This isn’t to say that resource scarcity and competition don’t exist – they do – but we’ve placed far too much emphasis on these aspects of understanding nature as applied to human …
Ecology is defined as the study of the relationships between organisms and their environments. The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, which means “house” and -logia, “study of”. Few people are ever trained in the basic foundations on which the earth, our home, functions, and on which we are wholly dependent. Based …
Eco-literacy Part 2: The missing element in our connections and decision making with our environment
Could I ever convince you that the tail wags the dog? Probably not. It is easy to observe that dogs in every country in every land known to us wag their tails, not the other way around. There are many things in our world and universe that we don’t so easily observe, and so …
Eco-literacy Part 1: The missing element in our connections and decision making with our environment
Here’s a question you may not have heard before: What is the real currency of our planet? As toddlers, we begin to naturally learn to respond to and speak our parents’ language. We learn soon enough the words for coins and dollars, and their value to obtain things we want. In modern human societies …
Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that It lights the whole sky ~D. Landinsky (attributed to Rumi) At dusk, as I walked into the woods, I noticed the tops of the barren trees shimmering with golden sunlight and took …
[photo: “A Shadow of Life to Come” by Brent T. Ladd] “And now let us welcome the New Year Full of things that have never been.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke One of the things in life that I am grateful for is the opportunity to begin again. “Always we begin again.” This is an important …