In this time of global COVID pandemic, I have found a few prompts to be particularly helpful for me. I have engaged with most of them verbally, taking turns responding to them with a partner, but they can also work quite well as a writing activity.
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It feels important to start with sharing some of the lineage of how I arrived at this work, this service, this purpose, and mention at least some of the many voices contributing along the way. While my role in this book is as the principal storyteller, and weaver of threads, it is not my work alone – so many are involved as life lives through me.
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As uncomfortable as it may be for people conditioned by a culture hyper focused on the rights of an individual, sometimes individual sacrifices are necessary for the health of the collective.
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How can humans who have strayed from respectful and reciprocal relationship with the community of life shift their orientation? What practices and doorways can support us in belonging again with the community of life as mutually enhancing participants rather than as extractive conquerors?
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Three plants have been particular medicine for me in the past year - Yarrow, St. John’s Wort, and Bishop’s Weed. They have helped me to discern an answer to this question that feels so important: in this planet time, what boundaries and commitments do I want to make with my time and life energy?
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Witnessing beautiful, old trees being taken down by chainsaws, I wondered, "How can we shift our human relationship with the living Earth from one that takes and takes and wastes the living world, to one which takes only what we need and coexists in a mutually beneficial way?"
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A recent walk in the woods reminded me that I can observe and move as a respectful visitor in the land I share with other creatures, rather than trying to make a place "mine."
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