Subject: A story of ReMembering
A story of ReMembering
September 5th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Part of my personal practice of ReMembering is to visit and make offerings to certain lands that are sacred to me. These are places where I experience being re-membered into the ancient song of the winged ones and the grazing creatures a ...
Beyond and within
August 29th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Here's a story that dwells within the heart of Sequoia Samanvaya; of this work of ReMembering and ReEnchanting. I was a child - perhaps seven. Something difficult was happening in my parents' house. My memory is less of a specific thing ...
Land, God, Estates, and Laughter
August 22nd, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, In the midst of preaching (I'm doing a 2-part series on ‘accompanying history’ at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, about 30 mins south of where I live), visits to lakes and rivers, and doing Sessions with clients, a small, very ordi ...
Paper(work)
August 15th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, The other day, my partner and I were about to sit down to plan out the course that we are offering this September (so soon!) - when I could not find one of the papers that had the notes from our last conversation. As I had recently been ...
Trolls, Play, Work, and Education
August 8th, 2026 at 10:07 am EDTHi Friend, First we heard the music as we walked along the forest path: beautiful instrumental notes, less of a song or a particular tune than an array of sounds that built on and enhanced one another. Then we saw an array of colorful birdhouses, e ...
Cooperation and Queer Evolution
August 1st, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I'm so delighted to bring this new podcast episode with mathematician Ben Allen to you! We talk about mathematics and evolution and cooperation and queerness. This podcast episode came about because last summer, I published an article on ...
Join me: Firehorse Midyear Reflection with Circular Time
July 25th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTDear Friend, Join us this coming Friday (July 31) for our Firehorse Midyear Reflection using our beloved Circular Time methodology! Back in February, I talked about how in the Chinese zodiac, the Lunar New Year beckoned in the Year of the Fire Hors ...
What the smoke reflects
July 18th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTDear Friend, I was having a moment, a friend told me this week about something that happened during a workshop she was co-leading this past week. Someone had said something that had triggered her. “So my co-facilitator gave me the head nod, as i ...
7 short updates: Democracy Circles, Fall Courses, and Thunder
July 11th, 2026 at 10:00 am EDTDear Friend, I've been sending out a fair amount of long-form emails/essays recently, and so I wanted to take a step back from that this week and offer something shorter. 7 elements, with the last one including a vignette. 1. First, I'm so apprecia ...
America Turns 250: Heat, Coal, and the Pattern We Haven't Broken
July 4th, 2026 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, This past week, every time I opened the door from the air-conditioned space I was staying in and walked outside, I felt like I was walking into an oven. I was at a Gathering on the Cumberland Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains, and alo ...