So I thought I’d do something a little different today. I’m in the middle of a big project- recording my books and making them into audiobooks. It’s been a longtime dream, and I’m really happy to finally be fulfilling it. And at the same time it’s a pretty challenging…

Transcript: Times like these are challenging, and they’re likely to stir up feelings of agitation or unease within us. So it’s especially important right now to take good care of ourselves-to keep mind and body together, moment to moment, day by day. There are of course many practices for doing…

Transcript: It’s a question that comes up a lot: How does a person start practicing nature spirituality? So today I’d like to talk about two practices in particular. They’re great if a person is just beginning to explore nature spirituality, and they’re equally great for people who have years of…

Transcript: It’s a question many people are asking these days: How did we get so disconnected from nature? So that we can damage the very web of life? Where did we go wrong? It’s a good question to ask because answering it might help us figure out how to change…

Transcript “The world is an entwined place.” It’s one of the most evocative, and most profound, sentences I’ve ever heard. It comes from Dr. Teresa Ryan, of the Gitlan tribe of Tsimshian Nation of the Pacific Northwest coast. …

Transcript Twenty years ago this summer I started something new. Something I had no idea how to do. It was related to the creek that ran beside our house in Oakland. I’d moved onto the property a few years before, charmed by the old house on a steep hill and…

Transcript We step down the slope of wet sand. Today the waves are small, breaking in soft foam around our ankles. We wade in deeper, settle our snorkel masks on our faces, and lift our feet from the sand, floating toward our local reef. My eyes roam over the rolling…

Transcript “A duty of care.” I ran across the phrase this week in a book I was reading, To Speak for the Trees, by the botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. In the book Diana talks about growing up in Britain and Ireland — how she was orphaned at the age of twelve…

Transcript So I want to talk more about prayer or meditation on a path of nature spirituality. Of course on this path there are many possible kinds of prayer and meditation, but today I’d like to focus on one in particular: the practice of going on a spirit journey. I…