Well, dear readers and friends, the collapse is well underway. It is hard to even recognize this world we live in from before the pandemic. I look at the headlines today, and many of them sound like the science fiction …
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A Wheel of Deepening Land Healing through Sacred Gardens and Refugia, Part II: Radiating Rituals and Sending Energy Outward
When I first started writing about the idea of refugia over a decade ago, the idea where we would intentionally create nature sanctuaries, pockets of life where the land could flourish, grow, and be protected from everything that is going …
Right Story, Wrong Story: Visioning for a Better World in 2026
A group of women sit in a circle by a crackling fire, meditating to the beat of a drum. We have done a range of ceremonies this day, including protecting the delicate ecosystems of our mountains that are threatened by …
How AI is Bad for the Planet: Fighting Data centers, CO2 emissions, and more
We are now three years into the age of ubiquitous generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), and well, things are not going well. The world is not a better place for it; most people’s lives are not a better place for it, …
Thriving in the Anthropocene: A Druid’s Garden Guide to Visioning, Caring, and Living in this Age
The question that many of us have on our minds is: How do we thrive in this age? There’s a lot to be concerned about. We are seeing the descent of many countries globally into fascism with extremist leaders being …
Reflecting on Climate Change and Processing the Grief of Experience
Come gather ’round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou’ll be drenched to the boneIf your time to you is worth savin’And you better start swimmin’Or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times …
The New Paradigm for the Future: What do we do next?
As we’ve been exploring in my post last week–a new paradigm is rising, a paradigm being enacted in backyards, home kitchens, community gardens, clubs, mushroom clubs, herbalism schools, ecovillages, pigment foragers, and thousands of other places. This is a new …
Rituals to Support Wildfires, Smoke, and Climate Change
It has been a hard week for many in North America, and around the globe. About half of the United States is having record-breaking heat, up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 Celsius) in a heat dome that shows and is …
Living for the Future at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
As many of us seek to transition from our current destructive culture and create a powerful vision for the future, we need good models of what this kind of transition may look like. As we are moving forward, this often …
Visioning the Future through the Bardic Arts: Creating Vision, Creating Hope
I used to be a big fan of reading dystopian fiction when I was younger. It seemed like a distant world, a reality far from our own. But perhaps now, those books resonate too close to reality. As someone who …
Rituals for Extinction and Honoring Extinct Species
In the Anthropocene, many things are dying at a rate unprecedented to human history. Currently, 75 % of the world’s life is endangered, and 50% of life in the world has disappeared since 1970 due to human activity. I’m not …
Sacred Tree Profile: Magic, Medicine, Folklore and Ecology of Ash (Fraxinus Americana)
I remember the first time I met an Ash tree suffering from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) in South East Michigan. She was a young ash, about 20 years old, about 4” thick at her widest point typical age, and …
A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing, Part VII: Self Care and Land Healing
Today’s post continues my long series in land healing (see earlier posts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), and given the heaviness of the last few weeks of posts, today, I wanted to delve into how to do this …
The Power of Permaculture: Regenerating Landscapes and Human-Nature Connections
As a species, we are facing a number of challenges that can be overwhelming—from global climate change to failing ecosystems, to mass deforestation and substantial water stress. Many who care deeply about the earth, who see the earth as sacred, …