I’m glad to have found your substack! I do believe we share a similar world view and I’m excited to catch up on your post archive. I’m in New England, but I’m always about a year away from moving to Charleston, SC. However, there’s something special about the deciduous forest and old mountains here that draws me in. It feels familiar and comfortable. I firmly believe that everything is connected, the earth is alive, and fiddler crabs may just hold the metaphor to place everything into appropriate context! Thank you for writing your truth.
Thank you so much for joining in! I see your name honors our side-walking friends. Looking forward to hearing more. Those deciduous forests and mountains are powerful, aren’t they. Best wishes as you find your home spot, wherever it is, and much enjoyment along the way!
Welcome, Sara, and thanks so much for your kind attention and for sharing these good words! I love that image of you as a kid writing poems with the pine trees, listening to their whispers. Let’s help make a world where all our stories can thrive!
Hi Priscilla! I’m Sara, I live in Texas and work and live to see and innerstand myself as nature. Many of the steps you mentioned resonated for me… I grew up catholic, with a God up there, and to deal (one way, at least) was that I would go and write poems alone in the pine trees as a young kid. I committed to myself and my family that I’d participate until 13, and then I would stop. I did. I then realized I needed to incorporate my body as part of nature. Later, energy healing and earth based modalities have helped to support, along with a long stretch of non duality that continues to inform my sense of reality.
I love your shares and I love hearing about the birch. I know experiences like this. I wouldn’t have had the courage to fully think about them… without yours. Your writing brings me right into these experiences. With ease. With Grace. With accessibility. With precision. Thank you! 🌳 💚
Beautifully expressed, Priscilla. Thank you for taking on this little challenge of describing your work. This work you are doing just gets more and more critically important, so any way you can get it out there more broadly is, of course, very important. Much love and gratitude for you and what you are doing for this world.
Hi Patricia. I live in Minnesota and just wrote a post about my native wildflower habitat garden and how we inviting our wild kin into our spaces knits us to place and deepens our relationship to the other-than-human. As you point out spiritual, imaginal and practical combine in a powerful way!
I was touched to read about the birch visiting you, having felt personal relationships to various trees at different times. I've read / listened to different parts of your work and resonate with your approach to nature a lot. I'm looking forward to diving in more! Thank you for all you bring to our world, it's so needed.
Thanks for letting us know you're here, Morgan! You're in UK, yes? Trees have so much to offer, don't they. Welcome, and thanks for celebrating nature connection!
Thanks for this thorough overview of your approach to being in the world. It reads like a “start here” or pinned post. So much of your experience resonates with mine, it’s uncanny — particularly finding ways to get quiet and listen to our more than human kinfolk. Always enjoy meeting a fellow traveler. I look forward to further interactions.
My Substack, Homecoming is a place to step out of the center, to explore the edges, and to share our profound gratitude, awe, and wonder at being alive on this amazing planet. I post essays, interviews with nature writers, a monthly journal of Substack nature writing, and fiction that explores other voices than human.
You got it, Julie—this is now my pinned post. Always glad to find others who are listening to the more-than-human voices! Thanks for stopping by and saying hello, and thanks for all you do to center us in wonder!
I’m glad to have found your substack! I do believe we share a similar world view and I’m excited to catch up on your post archive. I’m in New England, but I’m always about a year away from moving to Charleston, SC. However, there’s something special about the deciduous forest and old mountains here that draws me in. It feels familiar and comfortable. I firmly believe that everything is connected, the earth is alive, and fiddler crabs may just hold the metaphor to place everything into appropriate context! Thank you for writing your truth.
Thank you so much for joining in! I see your name honors our side-walking friends. Looking forward to hearing more. Those deciduous forests and mountains are powerful, aren’t they. Best wishes as you find your home spot, wherever it is, and much enjoyment along the way!
Welcome, Sara, and thanks so much for your kind attention and for sharing these good words! I love that image of you as a kid writing poems with the pine trees, listening to their whispers. Let’s help make a world where all our stories can thrive!
Hi Priscilla! I’m Sara, I live in Texas and work and live to see and innerstand myself as nature. Many of the steps you mentioned resonated for me… I grew up catholic, with a God up there, and to deal (one way, at least) was that I would go and write poems alone in the pine trees as a young kid. I committed to myself and my family that I’d participate until 13, and then I would stop. I did. I then realized I needed to incorporate my body as part of nature. Later, energy healing and earth based modalities have helped to support, along with a long stretch of non duality that continues to inform my sense of reality.
I love your shares and I love hearing about the birch. I know experiences like this. I wouldn’t have had the courage to fully think about them… without yours. Your writing brings me right into these experiences. With ease. With Grace. With accessibility. With precision. Thank you! 🌳 💚
Beautifully expressed, Priscilla. Thank you for taking on this little challenge of describing your work. This work you are doing just gets more and more critically important, so any way you can get it out there more broadly is, of course, very important. Much love and gratitude for you and what you are doing for this world.
Thanks, Erika! It's kind of a daunting challenge, isn't it, to talk ABOUT the writing rather than just doing it? Deeply grateful for your support.
Hi Patricia. I live in Minnesota and just wrote a post about my native wildflower habitat garden and how we inviting our wild kin into our spaces knits us to place and deepens our relationship to the other-than-human. As you point out spiritual, imaginal and practical combine in a powerful way!
Ah, what beautiful flowers you're enjoying in Minnesota now! Refreshing just to look at them. Thanks for helping knit people to land and its magic.
I was touched to read about the birch visiting you, having felt personal relationships to various trees at different times. I've read / listened to different parts of your work and resonate with your approach to nature a lot. I'm looking forward to diving in more! Thank you for all you bring to our world, it's so needed.
Thanks for letting us know you're here, Morgan! You're in UK, yes? Trees have so much to offer, don't they. Welcome, and thanks for celebrating nature connection!
Thanks for this thorough overview of your approach to being in the world. It reads like a “start here” or pinned post. So much of your experience resonates with mine, it’s uncanny — particularly finding ways to get quiet and listen to our more than human kinfolk. Always enjoy meeting a fellow traveler. I look forward to further interactions.
My Substack, Homecoming is a place to step out of the center, to explore the edges, and to share our profound gratitude, awe, and wonder at being alive on this amazing planet. I post essays, interviews with nature writers, a monthly journal of Substack nature writing, and fiction that explores other voices than human.
https://juliegabrielli.substack.com/
You got it, Julie—this is now my pinned post. Always glad to find others who are listening to the more-than-human voices! Thanks for stopping by and saying hello, and thanks for all you do to center us in wonder!