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The Bog Shaman: An Invitation to Intimacy, Wonder, and Place at the home of the Cailleach Bhéarra
On the Beara Peninsula, winter enters quietly through the bog. It always has. This is the land’s first threshold, the place that feels the shift long before the rest of the world takes notice. Winter comes on the scent of damp earth and peat, in the faint metallic clarity of cold air, in the soft resistance beneath your boots as you step onto the dark, springing ground. Before frost etches its fine geometry across stone and heather, the boglands are already turning inward. Mo


Ten Love Letters to the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh
In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an...


Wintering, and how Trees illuminate the Art of Self-Renewal in difficult times
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a...


Find Your Biophonic Niche
You flicker from tree to tree, splaying your rump feathers, curling your toes around a maple branch, flushing green and flexible after...


Mycelium & Myth
Some 416 million years ago plants made it onto dry land. But these plants were not the plants you and I know as sturdy trees and...


Storytelling is an Emergency: An Ecological Reading of Scheherazade
“What is your emergency?” I asked my creative writing group of female high school students. “What if you only had time to tell one last...


When The Source Ran Free: A Story For The Present Time
Watching the sun rise over the wetlands, the mist fading, even here in the midst of nature there is the strange stillness of a world in ...


What is Ecological Storytelling?
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town,” is a saying often attributed to the...


The Scottish man who has dedicated his life to Trees
In 1986 Alan Watson Featherstone founded the award-winning conservation charity, Trees for Life, which works to restore the Caledonian...
