Who are the dead, and what do they have to do with our vocation, the climate, or navigating our modern lives? It turns out that they have a lot to do with all of those things, and in this conversation with writer and educator Perdita Finn, we dive into how wonderful and natural it is to collaborate with those on the other side.
Read MoreWelcome to the first podcast episode of the 2023 Autumn season! Learning how to navigate the darkness, literally and spiritually, is a skill that most of us would benefit from working on. Knowing how to be in the dark helps us to become people who are in touch with an older wisdom and can live out our deep service to the world.
Read MorePart 4 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.
How many of our activities at home are in service to how we earn a wage? The laundry, the cleaning, the cooking - it’s so often crammed into edges of our days or weeks, in tiny windows of time when we’re not beholden to income-earning work. While this may have shifted early on in the pandemic, I’ve found that even for those still working from home, the size of the work continues to squeeze out the time necessary for homemaking.
Read MorePart 3 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.
In the same way, your labor - the energy you exert to create beauty, nourishment, and care for yourself and others - can be a form of worship and communion with the natural world and the divine. This is possible no matter what you do for work, how others feel about your labor, or how much you’re paid to do it. Your labor can become sacred if you simply intend it to be so. And, you deserve to labor in the ways that work for your body and are a reflection of your soul’s giftedness.
Read MorePart 2 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.
For millennia, time was a fluid and subjective construct. Work was done in alignment with the natural flows of life. Longer Summer days meant more time harvesting berries or building a new shelter. Cold Winter’s nights drew people inward, close to the fire to conserve their energy. Rather than requesting to meet on June 30th, our ancestors would have suggested meeting on the New Moon, or in the week after the caribou had passed through. The Earth’s rhythms were time, and they shifted according to the cycles of the Sun and Moon.
Read MoreI awoke around five in the morning on our last day in a remote wilderness lodge. The sky was still dark, the silence thick.
After having experienced an exceedingly luxurious few days of natural beauty, vibrant cuisine, and digital detox, I woke up with a sadness in my chest. Lying in the dark with a view of a pitch black sky, I felt the presence of a grandmother. Not mine, but a grandmother born of this place. She ached.
