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Navigating The Mysteries, By #MartinShaw

#EmergenceMagazine

“There are few tales worth remembering that don’t have uncertainty woven into them. Without uncertainty we have mission statements not myth. We have polemic not poetry, sign not symbol. There’s no depth when we are already floating above true human experience.”

Read or listen to Martin Shaw’s narration here https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/

From #EmergenceMagazine

"In 1977, over four hundred families living in Geamăna village in the Apuseni Mountains of western Romania were evacuated to make room for a tailings pond for the country’s largest copper mine. Forty years later, Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa captured the effects of the toxic runoff, a strange beauty at the heart of an ecological disaster."

https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/poisoned-beauty/

#ecology #toxic #mining #copper #beauty #photography

Creatures That Don’t Conform: Lying at the edge of our understanding, slime molds invite us into their mystery and remind us of the vast possibilities of life on Earth

🔗 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/

📷 by Barry Webb Images for Emergence Magazine

#slime #nature #environment #EmergenceMagazine #mold #forest #NaturalHistory #woods

Still one of the best essays I've ever read. You can listen, too. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/

#inspiration #mystery #truth #emergencemagazine

Watched the #ShortFilm 'Utuqaq' today, thanks to #EmergenceMagazine.

Narrated in an #Indigenous Greenlandic language, the film is a meditation on silence, the #color white, and the #spiritual intelligence of ancient #ice. The poetics are also ecological: as the ice itself is given voice through narration, it describes the "story" of a small group of #climate researchers that interrupt - or maybe punctuate - its vastness with color and noise.

https://emergencemagazine.org/film/utuqaq/

#ClimateChange #Greenland

"To update Merton’s question: What can we gain by fixing climate change or ending poverty or terraforming Mars if we remain alienated from ourselves? How to cross that abyss?" ~ Fred Bahnson

#EmergenceMagazine #ThomasMerton #ClimateCrisis #climate

Some #quotes are so apposite, they feel like glittering gifts from the Universe:

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?” ~ Thomas Merton

From this excellent piece by Fred Bahnson in #EmergenceMagazine:

https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/

#ClimateCrisis #ThomasMerton #dearMoon

When the Earth Started to Sing

“Earth, finally, was wrapped in song.”

From the blurb:

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.

When did the living Earth first start to sing? We invite you on a journey into deep time and deep sound that will open your ears and your imagination.

https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/when-the-earth-started-to-sing/

#EmergenceMagazine #FieldRecording #audio #soundscape #nature #sound #song

Planning a short “crack in the sky” presentation. To invite my coworkers into an ongoing public service project. Flying above the drizzly gray enveloping the last celebration of the blueberry bush leaves in the garden, thinking of Robin Wall Kimmerer who informed us that the Potawatomi word for the serviceberry is Bozakmin. And that “min,” the root for “berry,” also means “gift.” This is my throughline. #blueberry #fallcolors #gift #serviceberry #robinwallkimmerer #emergenceMagazine #norcal