where the fish meet

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." - Robert Frost

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Loved her practice of asking questions to her family (present and deceased) in the early morning dark, and knowing them so well that even in their absence she could hear their answer...

Also, how do we all embody what it means to be a transition generation?

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TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [withz brontë velez], Part Two /316 — FOR THE WILD

For The Wild Podcast presents Part Two of a two-part conversation between guest host brontë velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. This week we

Incredible.

Re-imagining coalition

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Incredible history of Hafiz and persian poetry

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The Seasons of Life | Parker Palmer

Years ago, I was given an article written by Parker Palmer that revolutionized my outlook on life and helped me move forward. The artic

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They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine

Around the world, scores of species of trees are moving north, or west, or upslope. What is at stake as the forests change around us? Experi

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Bird Dreaming, Maria Popova NYT

Do Birds Dream?

What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.

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The Worst Thing

The worst thing we ever did was put God in the sky out of reach pulling the divinity from the leaf, sifting out the holy from our bones, insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement through everything we’ve made a hard commitment to see as ordinary, stripping the sacred from everywhere to put in a cloud man elsewhere, prying closeness from your heart.

The worst thing we ever did was take the dance and the song out of prayer made it sit up straight and cross its legs removed it of rejoicing wiped clean its hip sway, its questions, its ecstatic yowl, its tears.

The worst thing we ever did is pretend God isn’t the easiest thing in this Universe available to every soul in every breath.

— Chelan Harkin

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See Me Beautiful, Red Grammer

Red Grammer singing "See me Beautiful" from the "Teaching Peace" album. Written by kathy Grammer and Red Grammer.

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Souvenirs of Climate Catastrophe – Anna Badken

Contemplating relics of environmental catastrophe from the near and distant past, Anna Badkhen speaks to our present human story of despair and hope. As the Earth endures great change, she wonders: What markers will we leave behind?

The seas are rising, the icebergs are melting, Siberia is ablaze, a third of Pakistan is underwater, heatstruck birds are falling out of the sky in India, a record-setting heatwave has shrunk the Yangtze River to a record low. In Europe, rivers running dry after yet another heatwave are once again revealing mementoes left behind by sufferers of historic droughts past. In Central Europe, hunger stones—river boulders that people living through droughts petroglyphed with dates and descriptions of their woe—commemorate the years of bad harvest, scarcity, high prices, hunger: 1417, 1616, 1707, 1746, 1790, 1800, 1811, 1830, 1842, 1868, 1892, 1893. One inscription, near Bleckede, in Lower Saxony, reads: “When this goes under, life will become more colorful again”; another, near the Czech town of Děčín-Podmokly: “If you see me, then weep.” On the same boulder, someone else later chiseled: “Don’t cry girl, when the field is dry, water it.” Many of the hunger stones on the Elbe River surfaced for the first time in many years in the summer of 2018, when Greenpeace, too, left a message on a boulder near Magdeburg: “If you see me, it’s climate crisis. August 2018.”

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To be well educated is to have learned the songs, proverbs, stories, sayings, myths (& technologies) that come with this experiencing of the nonhuman members of the local ecological community.

Gary Snyder, Practice of the Wild

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Liberating Our View of the Night Sky: A Conversation between Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Ayana Young | Center for Humans and Nature

In an interview with For the Wild, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein looks at liberation through access and rights to the night sky.

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The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples

For the past couple of years, a young woman known only as “Bionerd23” has been making strange, dangerous videos in and around one of the most infamous...

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Farmer Hot Takes: The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet — Greene Hill Food Co-op

In this edition of Farmer Hot Takes, learn about the Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet, founded by interdisciplinary media maker Candace Thompson. Thompson forages edible plants from her neighborhood of Bushwick, tests them for toxicity and then serves them to people at free community banquets.

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Invasives - Dark Mountain

Today from the new Dark Mountain 16 - REFUGE collection: Akshay Ahuja grapples with honeysuckle and other 'monsters' in times of ecological fall.

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W. S. Merwin, accomplished poet, and his exclusive full interview with 92nd Street Y

Click Here to subscribe for more:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92ndStreetY Watch this exclusive interview of W. S. Merwin only at 92nd ...

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A Tribute to W.S. Merwin at the 92nd Street Y

http://www.92Y.org/PoetryRecorded October 10, 2005 at the 92nd Street Y.