All life is intimately connected and built on the principles of touch, of connection, of sharing.
“How do you tell someone oh, it’s not that your mom threatened to stab me, did you know the state is going up in flames?”
“The Earth has woken up and all of her children are busily growing at this start to the seasons that feel endless.”
“In one moment, we’d gone from a maze of Zoom grids fiddling with mute buttons and spotty Wi-Fi, to feeling the same Santa Fe breeze together…”
Birth itself is an initiation. Not just for the new infant who is leaving the safety of the womb, but for the birthing parent as well.
Native science reminds us that we are connected to the rest of the world, in all of its messy complexity.
“They saw your curlicue tail, ever-wispy and bouncing with each trot, and laughed. Your chihuahuas will never make it with those dogs runnin’ round…”
“In the crushing quiet of a campus under quarantine, I’d been starving for sound all along…”
Instead of trying to control nature, we should instead learn how to fit into a changing landscape.
