Tag: human

  • Waa

    Waa

    What we are about to become, dancing with the shadow of what we used to know about ourselves What we are not answering,  looking for the beautiful question that refuses to rush our seasonality What we are withdrawing from, finding another ground from which to see and step into the unknown What we are transforming, Read more

  • In dialogue with life

    In dialogue with life

    Walking on thin air blind to your own regeneration you cannot see the path Walking on thin air losing sight of your meaning searching your house of belonging Walking on thin air freed by your suffering found, harvesting its presents Walking on thin air youthful revelation at the cliff of grief and celebration Walking on Read more

  • Integrity and integration

    Integrity and integration

    I spent the summer with great minds and this is what is now emerging.  The Way of Integrity I was re-reading The Way of Integrity from Martha Beck – which I highly recommend reading if you haven’t yet – and I was laughing at how much this book had, without me consciously knowing it, been Read more

  • Parts of Me

    Parts of Me
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    “Consciousness emerges from the integration of the parts” ‘Me’-etings Last year, I wrote a book called The Writer’s Dilemma, which I am now in the process of publishing. The book is a colourful invitation into the intimate dialogues of a climate human, Joy Bark, about why she should not be writing. Fresh, spicy and warm, Read more

  • Where is the edge of me?

    Where is the edge of me?
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    “Where is the edge of me?“: Nora Bateson’s provocative yet elusive words are often on my mind. They felt particularly alive lately when I was reflecting on what I/we know and how I/we know it in preparation for RM’s first learning summit. Why? What were these words waking up as I was attempting to unpack Read more

  • In service to life

    In service to life
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    Something beautiful is unfolding… That was the strong gut feeling I sensed as I was enjoying reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. What a treat this book is. An incredibly rich coming together of ideas, words and stories giving texture and grounding to concepts that often live separate lives. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Read more

  • Miracle

    Miracle
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    The miracle that life is Something sitting on the edge of the appreciation of life and grief of its loss A very fine line that only a funambulist could master the balance of Without falling on either side, of hope or gloom The balancing act might be the work that keeps us alive The dance Read more

  • Liberation

    Liberation

    Liberation Listen to your body Where wisdom lies Where truth is known Attune to your freedom You are enough You have enough Resist Rest, unlearn Slow down, say no Lean into your humanity Widen the healing portal Acknowledge what was stolen Care through the opening of your heart Liberate your community through your falling in Read more

  • Doubt

    Doubt

    Can Can I write this morning and the next Can the birds sing and grow their nest Can I find alignment in my spine Can the sun every morning rise and shine Can I ignore the noise all around Can the river be without its sound Can I go on when the flow seems lost Read more

  • We are

    We are

    We are Hungry for life Rainforest, teeming Beautiful and ferocious We are Ignorant, with knowledge Awake at night Hoping to be wrong We are Nature, with rights Displaced from culture Colonised, with institution We are Destruction at scale The unacceptable acceptance Of a shifting baseline We are Learning to live with fire And saltwater in Read more