home coming

Nov 14

consider this your welcome back! a home coming of sorts to a place you’ve always belonged….a place you have always known.

we somehow got lost along the way. between colonization, deforestation, consumerism, urbanization, etc. this selfishness has run out of room and over-consumed on this planet so it has decided to move into our minds to consume our thoughts.

societal greed and disenchantment have left us looking to the sky, getting lost in the matrix, and residing in make-believe realities in hopes that we will forget that it is this land beneath our feet that we truly need. we do not need a virtual reality or a metaverse. these spaces have been created to keep us from truly feeling and experiencing what is REAL. we came here to be human and to be a part of THIS world.

it’s time to find ourselves again and all signs to get us there point us back to earth. our mother. our home. in order to continue, to survive, we must reconnect with the earth and our earthly family. connect to the boundless infinity of our relationship to her and all living beings on this big beautiful planet.

so with this invitation we welcome you h.o.m.e. feel free to take off your shoes, reconnect with the ground beneath you and stay a while.

no matter our race or religion, may we connect back to where it all began….as humans of mother earth.

“The earth, the creatures, the rivers, the cosmos, all possess inspirited secrets that even the vast excavation of science cannot reveal. It is hubristic to believe that it is only a matter of time and effort before human investigation will expose all that can be known of the natural world. We walk, always, within enlivened mystery. “ - Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Grounding/Earthing appears to improve sleep, normalize the day–night cortisol rhythm, reduce pain, reduce stress, shift the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic toward parasympathetic activation, increase heart rate variability, speed wound healing, and reduce blood viscosity. So take off your shoes and stay a while…

“If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.”

Deepak Chopra

“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer

“The good way or the red road or the balanced life (depending on which Indigenous culture you speak from), is about continuing to find balance with everything in creation, while constantly reflecting on your physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, and social balance at personal, family, community, and Nation levels. The land needs each person to be in balance in order to help their family, community, and Nation to be in balance, while also maintaining their interconnectedness with all in creation. Yes, that’s a lot to ask of any person, but it is necessary for Mother Earth and all our relations.”

“The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.”

Deepak Chopra

Let us heal the pathways before us to create new pathways for those to come.

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together” - the beatles

“As long as we frame a worldview with language that refers to the wild as a commodity, it will be treated as one. It is likewise damaging to invoke technology-based metaphors to explain nature: the brain a computer, the earth a spaceship, the rooted and fungal soil beneath our feet a kind of internet. Such mechanistic phrasing unwittingly invites us to see the natural world as other-than-alive and reparable by human skill in ways that it simply is not. If we are seeking a relationship within the earthen community that is meaningful, genuine, and impactful, then the words we use to describe that relationship, and the beings in its purview, must be chosen with intention, with specificity, with intelligence, and with love.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt

we don’t want the metaverse...we want the universe!

“We have come to an earthen moment wherein we must make all the connections we are able with the whole of life, no matter how at-risk that puts our public-facing façade of normality. Look at the vapid homogeneity of the wealth-based, earth-denuding, dominant culture: is this the approval we seek? When we turn to the sweet, ragged edges of society, we see the people carrying violins, mandolins, pens, microscopes, walking sticks. The ones with ink on their hands, paint on their faces, mosses in their hair, shirts on sideways because they have been awake all night in the thrall of a new idea. This is where the art of earth-saving lies. We are creating a new story –one of vitality, conviviality, feralness (escape!), wildness, nonduality, interconnectedness, generosity, sensuality, creativity, knowledge of the earth and all that dwells therein.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Mother earth is always here holding us. Without that holding we would float off into space. Allow yourself to be held…allow yourself to feel held!

“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth’s beings.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We can continue pushing our earth out of balance, with greenhouse gases accelerating each year, or we can regain balance by acknowledging that if we harm one species, one forest, one lake, this ripples through the entire complex web. Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.

The rest of the planet has been waiting patiently for us to figure that out. Making this transformation requires that humans reconnect with nature -- the forests, the prairie, the oceans -- instead of treating everything and everyone as objects for exploitation.”
― Suzanne Simard