Under The Quandong Tree
‘being like our place’. I think this is a good way to start if you want to begin to discern the patterns of creation and rejoin our custodial species.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
That is why we have to be in contact with the peaceful and positive aspects in and around us and be able to enjoy them. We need to teach our children how to appreciate these wondrous and precious things. If we know how to appreciate them, we will know how to protect them. This basic practice will protect our happiness and our children’s happiness a
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • Transformation And Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Buddhims)
We’re in dire need of a new cultural story to live by. Not to negate the old, as Sophie Strand writes, but to “compost” the stories that no longer serve us so they can become fertile ground from which a new story may emerge. A story that doesn’t tell us we’re separate from but deeply interconnected with all living beings. One that recognizes that h... See more
Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
A person ‘of high degree’ in traditional knowledge may find a song in a dream if they are profoundly connected to land, lore, spirit and community. But that song must then be taken up by the people and modified gradually through many iterations before it becomes part of the culture. Besides, that song can only be found through a ritual process deve
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