The Wonder in an Acorn
Published in Issue 1 of From the Ground Up. "Imagine with me: what if we offered the places where we live an unflinching, unfailing,...
Speaking Wind-Words
On the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, I consider the collision of prophecies that occurred over the Great Plains in the...
Coming into Being: Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse
As my daughter learns to speak, I meditate on how to listen for a language of mothering that is in service to all of life’s beings....
Profile pieces
Applied Alchemy A profile of Lead2Life. Extracted iron ore can be forged into a weapon. A gun can be melted into a shovel that is used to...
One Hundred and Eleven Trees
When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that...
They Carry Us with Them: The Great Tree Migration
Right now, around the world, trees are on the move. Read at Emergence Magazine: They Carry Us with Them: The Great Tree Migration
Born Was the Mountain
A collision of values unfolds on the summit of Mauna Kea, the proposed site for the largest telescope in the world. Read at Emergence...
The Lord God Bird
As the existence of the famed ivory-billed woodpecker is increasingly left to the realm of myth, I explore the widespread disappearance...
On Motherhood & COVID: A Four-Part Series
On bringing new life into the world at a time of climate crisis and pandemic. Read at Emergence Magazine: Part I: "New Life in Spring"...
The Great Sea Serpent of Casco Bay
Sea monsters have long roamed the dark waters of legends, embodiments of a wild and chaotic power. Read at Emergence Magazine: The Great...
Wild Fire, Flat Water
A Journey Through Time and Place in Nebraska & South Dakota Read at Emergence Magazine: Wild Fire, Flat Water
Time To A Pin Oak
Mapping the rings of a pin oak tree across the galaxy. A collaboration with artist Katie Holten. View at Emergence Magazine: Time to a...