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“Being A Person” - William Stafford Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring. Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait. A slow bubble rises through the earth and begins to include sky, stars, all space, even the outracing, expanding thought. Come back and hear the little sound again. Suddenly this dream you are having matches everyone's dream, and the result is the world. If a dif

What if place carries a spirit and a history? Imagine somewhere you live, a hillside, an underground train station, a city park, a wild place. Across cultures and centuries, humans have understood that place has interiority, memory, and the capacity for relationship. We see this from the Sámi of the Arctic to the ancient Celts in Ireland, from the Andes to Aotearoa. Rooted in animist depth psychology, they experienced this firsthand. Land as Presence, a presence that wants to

Rise Rooted: The Body, Dream & Mythic Imagination Is it possible, as Mary Oliver says, that we are living just a little and calling it a life? In my recent podcast conversation with soul guide and wilderness therapist Rebecca Wildbear, we found ourselves wandering back through the "magic doors" of our childhoods. I shared my memories of jumping off my childhood deck to cross a split-log bridge over an ephemeral creek, eventually disappearing into the hollowed-out center of a