People keep asking “What can we do?” Our podcast guest, Hardy Merriman, studies resistance movements and has many suggestions.

Robin Wall Kimmerer: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 Find out why Robin Wall Kimmerer is on this year’s list

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"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough."

Corey Booker, just now.

Night heron!

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Examining the shifting “wild clocks” of spruce saplings in Norway’s Future Library, Sami reindeer herds in Scandinavia, and oyster colonies in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, David Farrier seeks ways to renew the rhythms by which we live. Read this week's essay, “Wild Clocks.” https://buff.ly/4aqhxdF

A Convergent Imagining – J. Drew Lanham What if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson had met? Imagining an exchange in the year 1964, J. Drew Lanham explores the power and necessity of convergence.

What if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rachel Carson had met? Imagining an exchange in the year 1964, as the civil rights and environmental movements were forging parallel and increasingly urgent paths into American culture, J. Drew Lanham explores the power and necessity of convergence.

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In this week's newsletter, Emergence Executive Editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee invites us to engage with the radical intimacy of spiritual ecology. Also, Paul Salopek shares profound experiences of timelessness, which he dubs “sacramental time,” on his epic journey on foot. https://buff.ly/3PFGNTu

When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps – Roger Reeves Centering images of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, DMX, and Mike Tyson in postures of rest and repose, poet Roger Reeves reflects on the stillness of their interior worlds as a protest against the contr...

Poet Roger Reeves centers images of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, DMX, and Mike Tyson in postures of rest and repose, and reflects on the stillness of their interior worlds as a protest against the control of capitalistic time. emergencemagazine.org/essay/when-t...

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“What is the gift that I could give you in return for water or berries or birdsong?” —Robin Wall Kimmerer

In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
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Dawn Chorus Medieval birds to gladden the heart

Just out on Caravanserai: a bit of a side quest, but I came across this gorgeous manuscript and felt a deep dive into lovingly illustrated medieval birds was just what was needed this week.
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