Butterfly - by Linda Hogan(Emergence Magazine)

In the strong earth fragrance

I am part of the tree,

held against it. Brother, Sister,

we came from the cellular division,

its math already figured

many thousands of years

in the beginning,

in the far distance

of the journey,

the fragrance of leaves,

the taste of dew.

I was part of the tree, feeling

the leaves so heavy with

that morning damp,

awaiting the spectacle of sunset,

the evening blue, that vision of night.

Long ago, intruders

forced us to cross this land to the Black Prairie,

where glow worms shine all night

part of the magic of their life.

We traveled the ledge above a river

to the Long House village.

We are the clan of crossings

and the young transformed themselves,

opened their silk, crossed into full,

wing life to fly with all others

at once indigo blue, cerulean, their beauty

leaving us behind to watch,

knowing we crossed time

into the swarm of trees.

This generation; it is time to hunger,

each life still and watching the young

take again to our ways.

We look back and look forward,

remember the beginning.

We remember the milk of stars,

and drink the light.

#Emergence-Magazine #Linda-Hogan #butterfly #magic

Aloha ‘Āina - Directed by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (Part 2 of Shifting Landscapes - Emergence Magazine Series)

"What does it mean to love the land? For acclaimed Kanaka Maoli poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, this love is held in aloha ‘āina, a Hawaiian concept that teaches if we are connected to one another, it is only because we are connected to the land which nourishes us both. Laying bare the remaking of Hawai‘i from a place where people and land have lived in kinship for thousands of years to a place colonized with projections of pleasure and profit, Jamaica summons the true spirit of aloha. At the forefront of the fight to prevent a thirty-meter telescope from being constructed at the summit of Mauna Kea—the most sacred mountain in Hawai‘i—she speaks verses that command love and responsibility for any land that has fed and held us."

#documentary #Emergence-Magazine #Adam-Loften #Emmanuel-Vaughan-Lee #series #nature #ecology

The Nightingale’s Song - An Interview with Sam Lee

Hopefully some inspiring reading for those interested in such things?

#Emergence-Magazine #Sam-Lee #Intervies #ecology #Nightingales

I spent the morning in the #shed on our #allotment making up frames for our #beehives while listening to the #EmergenceMagazine podcast.

Just about a perfect way to spend a Sunday morning.

Wild and wonderful captures from a motion-activated camera aimed at a pillar near a field.

#SpiritualEcology #EmergenceMagazine

https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/the-pillar/?utm_content=buffer71ae8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR0If4Lrq1ozhJPbn3m16scksdO8_dstUXqsoXW0OzLEAmV6NxeqyFPUhCo

I enjoyed this, you might too.

Navigating The Mysteries, By #MartinShaw

#EmergenceMagazine

“There are few tales worth remembering that don’t have uncertainty woven into them. Without uncertainty we have mission statements not myth. We have polemic not poetry, sign not symbol. There’s no depth when we are already floating above true human experience.”

Read or listen to Martin Shaw’s narration here https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/

From #EmergenceMagazine:

"In 1977, over four hundred families living in Geamăna village in the Apuseni Mountains of western Romania were evacuated to make room for a tailings pond for the country’s largest copper mine. Forty years later, Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa captured the effects of the toxic runoff, a strange beauty at the heart of an ecological disaster."

https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/poisoned-beauty/

#ecology #toxic #mining #copper #beauty #photography

Still one of the best essays I've ever read. You can listen, too. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/

#inspiration #mystery #truth #emergencemagazine