EarthLove

Sharing Songs of Earth and Sky

Your Gods

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“When they ask to see your gods
your book of prayers
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird’s wing
tell them you believe
in giant sycamores mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open
spilling streams of molten ice to earth
and tell then how you drank
the holy wine of the honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your mother who never taught you
death was life’s reward –
but who believed in the earth and the sun
and a million, million light years of being.”
~JL Stanley

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Image: Soil, Root and Fern
by Nancy L

Celebrate the World

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“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

~Terry Tempest Williams,
When Women Were Birds

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Image: Linocut by Robert Gillmor

Thunderous Beauty

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When we listen and take in the astonishingly sensuous earth, we come awake to the thunderous beauty that surrounds us. We are literally inundated with the world pouring through every opening and in this awareness, we recognize a fundamental truth: we are of the earth.

In fact, as cosmologist Brian Swimme suggests, humans were put on earth to gawk. That is our cosmological destiny! To be astonished, amazed, delighted in the intricate weavings of the cosmos is to listen fully and to send out our sigh of appreciation is what is asked in return.

~Francis Weller

Image: Garden of the Gods
by Nancy L

Spring

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Saturday March 20, 2021 is Spring Equinox.
Time to celebrate Spring!

Dance a jig, say a prayer, light a candle,
make an offering to Gaia, sing to the trees…
Offer gratitude to Mama Earth.
Celebrate the turning of the seasons.
Spring is here.

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#season #growth #rebirth
#grateful #wheeloftheyear #ritual
#joy #flowers #celebrate
#honor #sacredearth
#balance

Web of Wyrd

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“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
~Plotinus, 205-270 CE

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#cycles #seasons #order
#rhythm #fate #connected
#onebreath

Image: dewy spider web
Wikimedia Commons

Earthrise

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Where despite disparities
We all care to protect this world,
This riddled blue marble, this little true marvel
To muster the verve and the nerve
To see how we can serve
Our planet. You don’t need to be a politician
To make it your mission to conserve, to protect,
To preserve that one and only home
That is ours,
To use your unique power
To give next generations the planet they deserve.

We are demonstrating, creating, advocating
We heed this inconvenient truth, because we need to be anything but lenient
With the future of our youth.

And while this is a training,
in sustaining the future of our planet,
There is no rehearsal. The time is
Now
Now
Now,
Because the reversal of harm,
And protection of a future so universal
Should be anything but controversial.

So, earth, pale blue dot
We will fail you not.

~Amanda Gorman