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Bright Green Futures

Bright Green Futures

Apr 9, 2025

Imagining bright green futures is the first step in getting there. In this post I share the future I desire and inspirations for my stories.

Learning From Forest Marcescence

Learning From Forest Marcescence

Feb 16, 2025

Beech trees offer a spark of inspiration. Some thoughts on how to be bright, how to catch inspiration.

The (real) Secret

The (real) Secret

Nov 12, 2024

I began writing The Working when the self-help book The Secret was all the rage. An alternate title for my novel: The Real Secret.

Climate Confusion

Climate Confusion

Feb 2, 2024

It’s Imbolc amidst climate chaos. Cycles are out of whack, and yet our kin in Nature find ways to survive.

Slow time and Solstice

Slow time and Solstice

Jun 23, 2023

A few days back, a tree frog spent the whole day sleeping on our garden gate.

True, they are nocturnal, so it wasn’t like they were taking a break from activities. Yet, I’d been receiving messages recently

How pluckable is your harvest?

How pluckable is your harvest?

Aug 1, 2022

A poetic offering and doodle for Lammas 2022. Inspired by the scene out my window: a bright yellow finch plucking a seed from an echinacea.

Solarpunk Futures: Tilting Towards a Better World

Solarpunk Futures: Tilting Towards a Better World

Jan 29, 2022

I’m very taken with solarpunk, a movement grounded in reality that points us towards justice and a regenerative world. My solarpunk article is up at the Center for Sustainable Futures (CSF), Columbia University. I’m thrilled with its reception and the lovely comments I’ve received, especially

A Sliver Past Eclipse

A Sliver Past Eclipse

Nov 19, 2021

The winds are howling today, grabbing at the oak leaves that still cling to branches. I watched the lunar eclipse this morning through these nearly bare branches. As the spark of brightness reappeared on the red moon, a weight lifted from my shoulders and heart, the heaviness that had lingered this past week evaporated.

What has been up for you this past week

Kin: being We with the Earth

Kin: being We with the Earth

Sep 6, 2021

We opened to our nonhuman Earth kin and explored ways to feel ourselves part of the We, decentered and connected with kin.

Fireflies, cicadas, and other kin: a climate change story

Fireflies, cicadas, and other kin: a climate change story

Jun 22, 2021

I rescued a firefly this morning, giving it a lift outside from the bathroom floor. What would Summer be without fireflies? To my dismay, climate change may yield an answer.

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