Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

This reciprocal relationship with the land upon which we dwell is so essential to our practice of belonging. For those who live in urban centres, it is important to adopt even a small patch of green, whether it’s on a balcony or rooftop or in a community garden plot, and begin to learn its ways. Learning might even begin with something as quiet as

Estés, Clarissa Pinkola, In the House of the Riddle Mother: The Most Common Archetypal Motifs in Women’s Dreams,

We are being called to stop turning away from ugliness, to witness the shattering, so that we can consciously participate in the reconstitution of a new world.

He wanted to feel as if the land wanted to be developed, rather than asserting his control upon it.

When you go to a party, instead of letting the fear of fitting in overcome you, practice wondering instead if anyone you meet might need belonging.

how might we practice belonging ourselves back to the ecosystem?

When you’re ready, find or create an object that symbolizes the closure you seek, and consider imbuing it with your prayers: I bless your absence, your silence, your disappearance from me with this grief. May the echo of your going missing reach back to you one day, so you know your own substantiality. May I know my grief as a measure of my willing

If we imagine an invisible mycelial network under the visible surface of things, of which we are but fruiting bodies, then we see how our lives should be in service to feeding the whole forest together.

I don’t want to show you my good side and hide my humanity.