The Gift of Stillness
By the sea at sunset, the sky turns pink and pearl. Distant snowy peaks reflect in the still tide. Otters tumble, fish leap, a seal exhales, a hummingbird hovers like a prayer.
Stillness holds me. Life gathers here—playful, sacred, whole. The Earth asks nothing but presence. And I am here, held by sea and song.
Our connection to our ancestors became an intellectual construct, a subject of study rather than a lived experience. We catalog family trees, archive photographs, take DNA tests and construct historical narratives, but the relationship—the visceral, breathing, reciprocal relationship—has been thinned to a mere echo. And in this thinning, we reinforce the very illusion that keeps us unmoored and uprooted: the belief in our separability.
https://hazelvolk.substack.com/p/in-our-bones-ancestral-healing-as
Under the vast expanse of the sky, I find myself reflecting on the deep connections between the stars, the wild, and our sacred duty to protect both.
#orcas #alkaid #stars #astrology #nature #conservation
https://hazelvolk.substack.com/p/alkaid-a-call-to-protect-the-wild
As part of the web of life, we all hold the innate capacity for interspecies #communication. By slowing down, dropping into the heart, and listening with openness and empathy, humans can foster a deeper love, understanding, and connection with the more-than-human world.
By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.
For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.
Let’s lead by example 🙂
Minerals, Machines, and Mysticism: Technology as Ancestors
https://rootsandreverence.net/en/minerals-machines-and-mysticism-technology-as-ancestors
I love this new definition. The term "wayfinding" originally refers to the ancient Polynesian practice of navigating the high seas by observing the stars, the sun, ocean swells, and other natural phenomena and signs. This method was practiced for millennia, long before the invention of Western navigation instruments.
#wayfinder #intuition #nature #wisdom #animism #ancestralwisdom #Earth #sky #stars
→ Amazon Quietly Rescinds Pledges to Protect Black and #LGBTQ Rights
https://truthout.org/articles/amazon-quietly-rescinds-pledges-to-protect-black-and-lgbtq-rights/
“This change comes as part of broader corporate rollbacks of #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion (#DEI) programs, seemingly aligning with the GOP’s #farright agenda and signaling a disregard for the #safety of #marginalized communities”
“While I have always believed that we are not going to be saved by #rainbow #capitalism, it is shocking how quickly years of work have been erased”
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