Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown

As an answer to this question, I propose this: We are discovering and awakening into an essential, animating, actionable awareness of ourselves as participants in ecosystems.

All of us have ancestral memory of what it’s like to live connected, interdependent lives. We may be cut off or too far away from those traditions to claim them, but we can listen to our needs, our longings, and through ritual, rite, and practice build a way of being in the world that honors and makes tangible our connections to one another, to nat

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Reaching out to nature and history: The notion of community is a breathless affair when we imagine it as solely human.