You are invited to join me
and the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries
this coming Sunday Aug 21st 3:00 Eastern,
for their free monthly webinar. This month the topic will be A Litany of Wild Graces: Deepening into the Heart of Nature. Through conversation the moderator and I will explore various aspects of Nature Connection and I will read some poems and essays from my new book A Litany Of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology. I'd love to see you there and have you join in the conversation! Here is a link to ONE; to register, scroll down to Nature Evolutionaries Webinars and Events and click on the photo.
https://www.natureevolutionaries.com
Here is a short essay that introduces many of the principles we will be discussing:
Litany is Ceremony
It is the twenty first century. We have wrenched the Sacred from her tellurian home; exiled her beyond the blue earth, the benevolent trees, and our bronze flesh. Drowning in wealth, we ache and grieve, alone in night’s dark hour, asking “why?” Why this hollow echo inside, why the flat emptiness of life, why this lonely despair?
Yet all the while, there is another way, just outside the door. The perfumed spring time forest beckons, her elegant flowers are calling us away from the cyber-chains that bind us. A white-tail deer glimmer between tree trunks, stopping to turn liquid eyes toward us. Birds wait to sing for us, each note a doorway to truth. Step into earth’s sanctuary and begin to know the nature of each being, the qualities of each plant medicine. Learn the names and ways of these other than human persons ~ this litany of wild saints. Bring joy and gratitude. Call the names of these beings; know they are listening, they understand. The language of the heart needs no translation. May this litany be
Invocation; to call forth
other-than-human presences.
Invitation; to join in the great
conversation of beings.
Participation in a living
geography
botany
zoology
cosmology
a vocabulary of Oneness.
This is litany in its most untamed and fecund form. Call the names of
land formations
water mothers
plant beings
animal cousins
fire spirits.
A ripple of gratitude echoes toward the past, refracts into the future. The long round of time glistens with a thread of human remembrance.
Litany is creative word
Word is animate being
Being is the breath that sings
among us.
Let us sing their names as we walk.