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Sharing Songs of Earth and Sky

Reconnect and Remember

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“Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world. The visible became invisible, merging with the soil. It may have been a secondhand ceremony, but even through my confusion I recognized that the earth drank it up as if it were right. The land knows you, even when you are lost.

… That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer. The material and the spiritual mingle like grounds mingled with humus, transformed like steam rising from a mug into the morning mist. What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, a ceremony that makes a home.”

~Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Braiding Sweetgrass
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We can reconnect and remember.
And the act of offering thanks to Mama Earth and Papa Sky for this life changes everything.

#WakeUp
#Grateful

Elemental Belonging

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Don’t dismiss the elements. Water soothes and heals. Air refreshes and revives. Earth grounds and holds. Fire is a burning reminder of our own will and creative power. Breathe them in. Swallow their spells. There’s a certain sweet comfort in knowing that you belong to them all.’ 

~Victoria Erikson

37 Reasons Why Trees Will Win The Coming Revolution

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by Clark Strand

  1. It is impossible to tell which one is leading the revolt.
  2. The NSA will never know what they are thinking, because it can’t tell how they talk to one another.
  3. You can’t kill their souls by cutting their trunks.
  4. They understand reincarnation and renewal.
  5. They fathom the true nature of things and are never deluded or deceived.
  6. They make oxygen, and we don’t.
  7. They feed the earth and its creatures freely and generously without taking thought for themselves.
  8. Trees are the mothers of insects and the fathers of birds.
  9. They get along with one another and cooperate well with diversity.
  10. They carry no grudges.
  11. They know the complete history of the Earth.
  12. Their heads are in the Earth, not in the sky.
  13. They were green before green became a marketing technique.
  14. They have no part in the collective psychosis of modern humans.
  15. Trees are steady and patient.
  16. They aren’t restless—they can live for centuries in a single spot.
  17. They don’t pick up and move when the going gets tough.
  18. When you burn them or cut them, they just keep coming back.
  19. They are the custodians of the planet’s ancestral wisdom.
  20. They have the Goddess on their side.
  21. The planet is on their side.
  22. They are still undecided on the question of whether Homo sapiens were a good idea or not.
  23. They don’t use money or weapons.
  24. They are in league with the wind.
  25. They aren’t afraid of storms.
  26. They understand climate change in a way that humans never will.
  27. More trees are the sign of a healthier planet, more humans are the sign of a disease.
  28. The people in Turkey rose up to protect the last tree-filled park in Istanbul.
  29. Unlike humans, trees can grow their own shade.
  30. They don’t understand irony.
  31. They know that Monsanto and monotheism are the same.
  32. They never forgot the Divine Feminine—and never even needed to call Her that.
  33. People worshipped trees before they worshipped God.
  34. A tree’s religion does not rely on words.
  35. The trees control the weather in ways that humans will never understand.
  36. Their generals have minds that think too slow for humans to follow.
  37. Their strategy and their climate are one.

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The Secret From The River

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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

~Hermann Hesse