Land Body Ecologies, a research network which I am privileged to be part of, has just launched a book: ‘Stories of #Solastalgia’, presenting experiences across the #Arctic, #India, #Kenya, #Sápmi, #Thailand, #Uganda, and the #UK.
 
https://www.waterstones.com/book/stories-of-solastalgia/land-body-ecologies//9781913546915
 
#LBEStories #LandBodyEcologies #SolastalgiaStories #ClimateGrief #ClimateHope #ClimateInspiration #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration #Indigenous

Themed triplet for #SundaySentence

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." Aldo Leopold #AldoLeopold

"When you teach your children to love the Earth and love nature, you’re also teaching them to experience pain." Severn Cullis-Suzuki

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson #AlfredLordTennyson

Meeting 1 - habitat destruction of endangered species A

Meeting 2 - habitat destruction of endangered species B

Meeting 3 - group upset about legislation prohibiting harm to endangered species

Meeting 4 - see Meeting 2

Meeting 5 - see Meeting 2

Meeting 6 - dealing with human drama

My day. Everyday (almost). Pushing so hard to keep some space in this world for things not human against walls that keep closing in. It's exhausting. #sisyphus #ecogrief

Has anyone here ran and Environmental Grief Circle before?

We are doing a series of them at the library and I'd apreciate suggestions folks might have.

If you're in STC and interested in coming out, DM me and I'll send you the registration link.

The online #Sabbat rituals I started during the COVID lockdowns continue to be an important part of my offerings. Last night we gathered on Zoom for #Samhain to honor our beloved dead. During our ritual we paused to reflect on whole species who have disappeared into the ancestral realm due to the #ExtinctionCrisis because our #EcoGrief needs to be acknowledged and shared.

My "Zoom altar" is shared with a 2nd camera.

It is no longer possible for me to make "normal" #art. The #exhibition of my #BiodiversityShrines is meant to be #activism but also to encourage people to change their perspective through the #sciFi #fiction #storytelling. For me, it was a project to learn to deal with my #EcoGrief. And it's a hell of a lot of fun! In #Alsace with a QR code leading to the #virtualVisit in Fr/En/De: https://www.cronenburg.net/reliquaires/ You'll see moss! #biodiversity #climateActivism #biodiversityLoss #butterflies #mosstodon

This is the hardest time of year for me to get out and exercise, not because it's cold and dark, but because it's emotionally heavy. It is summer's end, the final harvest, #Scorpio season, the season of #grief in a society that generally doesn't do grief well. I got out for a run anyway, with the dying leaves, dragging some joy out from within, working on Sunday's sermon about #AllSoulsDay in my head.

One of my grad school classes is on eco-emotions. This module we were working with grief and our assignment was to create a ritual around someone or something we were mourning. I buried the two turtles I lost this week and mourned all the beings I couldn't save this year.

Second semester of grad school starts today. Classes on the emotional impact of the ecological crisis and spiritual activism. First round of book buying done. Endless hours of reading and paper writing begin now.

#ClimateDiary Finding myself just completely overwhelmed by grief at the moment about what we* have done to the world, and what the world is losing.

I keep on thinking about not just people but animals and plants everywhere suffering and dying in silence, entirely innocent in all this. And just want to say sorry to all, the whole time.

*"We" here not meaning all of humanity. But I do include myself amongst those who I hold responsible. From rich North, Gen X, etc.

I worked hard today because my best wishes for you come as sound https://anchor.fm/naturematchcuts/episodes/Season-01-Ep-05-She-Dies-In-Beauty-Why-You-Can-Feel-Both-Eco-Grief-And-Hope-e1sueft

Join me for a very special #RestrictedArea with a dying #tree and a paradise for #birds. A very personal episode of how to deal with #EcoGrief and feel #awe, #oneness and #interconnectedness with #nature

Wishing you all the best!

#HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve #NewYear #newyearsresolution #NatureMatchCuts #podcast
(just published, takes some time to reach all apps)

Madame crawls saplessly (plant writing) to a coffee. Episode 5 of my #podcast #NatureMatchCuts is scripted.

Now I'm going to fire up my AI grammar nitpicker, look for missing words and play the harsh proofreader. On 31st December the rather daring episode will be published. It's about #EcoGrief and #interbeingness #unselfing #interconnectedness

Listen to other episodes https://naturematchcuts.net and don't forget to subscribe to it on your favourite app/platform! #WritersLife #nature

A huge dead #tree lay naturally fallen in the #forest today. It had been dead for many years and hollowed out by #mushrooms, #woodpeckers and other animals. There is a quiet dignity around its crown.

And vibrant life. Birds peck insects and small rodents seek shelter from the cold. The time of #soillife has come and that of #mosses and #lichens.
#deadwood

In my next podcast episode (coming on New Year's Eve), I want to talk about #ecoGrief and how I find #comfort in #nature. #NatureMatchCuts