Re-Wilding the Self -2
The essential movement of rewilding the self is the turning toward Life, what I have come to call biotropism. This is no small feat of orienteering…
The essential movement of rewilding the self is the turning toward Life, what I have come to call biotropism. This is no small feat of orienteering…
The nails of my fingers
leave claw marks
in the soil of life
from my clinging on
to what is familiar
and comfortable and no longer
serves that which is awakening
…grounded in the reality of Life’s reciprocity and its consequent preference for strategies of mutualism. Mutualism is an evolutionary symbiotic strategy of wellness, hardiness and wholeness that can incorporate both competitive and cooperative hinging between species and individuals, resulting in ‘mutual benefit.’
And that letting go of all one knows
honoring the willingness and courage
to not know — to at last not name and define
to cease reading the maps drawn by those
who live under the spell of answers and knowing
and trust at last…
I am at last becoming the merry fool who knows nothing… and knows so.
Sometimes you lose a friend
they walk off into the night…
The Heart and Science of Resiliency in Turbulent Times… workshop was enthusiastically received…