In Forsaking Cahokia, (https://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/forsaking-cahokia-five-lessons-from?r=2bc8q&utm_medium=ios), the author describes walking away from a civilization that had become toxic. To what extent should we do this today? That’s a profound and unsettling question—and the Forsaking Cahokia essay is such a powerful lens for it. Read more →
Category: Transcendentalism
Living into Balance, expanded
Listening for the Life Force We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within… Read more →
Living into Balance
We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within this bleak reality, another truth… Read more →
Chapter 13: The New Transcendentalism
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated spaces.” —Wendell Berry It seems almost too obvious to need stating: humans are Earthlings. We are not aliens to this planet, nor visitors to it—we are born of its dust, shaped by its waters, and nourished by its air. We belong to the ancient and ongoing colony of… Read more →