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Reawakening
1–2 minutesAs a child, the cool, soil-moist air rising from the creek commanded stillness, silence, and reverence. I often stood in the light of the vine-maple sky, spider webs still glued to the sides of my face, and I watched it all glimmer. For long first moments, I stared. There was my breath, there was the
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Earth Knowledge
1–2 minutesHere is what I have realized: if you learn to make fire with nothing but what the forest provides, and you purify water in bowls you yourself have carved, and you spend the night warmly wrapped in a house of fallen hemlock needles, and if you find cattail roots and salmonberries for your dinner among the
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Shell Oil vs. The People of Earth
2–3 minutesWhen it comes to climate change, we already know what needs to be done. Yet we don’t do anything of consequence; we resist positive action because climate change looms over us as a great, daunting beast, too menacing to actually deal with. But maybe not. According to Naomi Klein in her book This Changes Everything, we have the
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Mount St. Helens
1–2 minutesHow can the vastness of stars be absorbed into earth? Borne upwards, torn sideways, woven into valleys? So sings the nighthawk, to whom the air holds no vastness, only the fragrance of Sitka alder, of subalpine fir, and soil drained by steady, cliffside winds. He surges down, where lupine, yarrow, and bulrush breathe through gravel, and nighthawk feels
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