Once upon a time, when words began to vanish, blessings and spellbooks brought them back.
Enchantments, songs, exquisit illustrations, words and poetry, are here to reconnect with nature.
Lost words: blessing
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Wildness
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Wildness
Gorgeous cries for connection and wildness. Our future has an ancient heart and you can feel it beating! In poems, pictures, words, music and film.
Julian: Enclosed in the alps
This enklavene is through the Julian Alps. Pause and browse and climb through the clouds. Be complete in the wild, jagged and broken landscapes!
9500 years old: mind-boggling
A tree that in some way or another has lived almost 9500 years.
This ancient organism sprouted in the early neolithic period. Mind-boggling!
Animals: and consanguinity
We all share connections with the same ancestors—consanguinity.
Read on to feel this, viscerally, as David Abram brings our interconnections and links with all around us vibrantly to life.
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
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Lambs, lambs, lambs. For spring, for peace and for the life and vitality of the newborn extending light. Enjoy!
Enklavene: welcome home
An invitation to listen with all our senses. To the sounds of the sunset, to other creature’s homes
Pause and listen for sanctuary.
An enklavene: fractal
This enklavene is a set of fractals. We zoom in from the bottom of the mountain and the mini-cliff-edged sheep (she looks perfectly at ease!) to the mountain cliffs. And then to the rocks on top.
There are sets of repeating patterns all around us. Importantly, we create them too. It’s a foundation of change.
Slocan: Integral forest cooperative
Success across multiple traditions, values and perspectives.
The Slocan cooperative is generating healthy and vibrant local communities, building on respect for one another and a healthy, fully functioning ecosystem
Edges: light and timeless
Wild edges, small islands, the middle of the North Atlantic. These are places where we melt, become timeless, spaces beyond interpenetrate us.
Expanse: isolation and connection
From the wilds of the far northern Atlantic coasts. The near impossible, being alone and deeply connected to humanity, comes viscerally alive in the wind.
A key: enclosures
Bring diverse pieces together and the new can emerge.
This New Year’s enklavene arose from stumbling across earth, fire, water and rock coming together. That diversity created the heart.
Solstice: narrated walking meditation
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Bracing: living in our climate
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.