Resources
1. To hear more about Quakers and Earthcare, please sign up for our quarterly newsletter: https://quakerearthcare.org/category/befriending-creation/ And, take a look at our website - we have lots of resources and inspiring stories https://quakerearthcare.org/
2. Queries from today. (I invite you to take the step to have Meeting for Worship with a more-than-human member of the Living World--even it if feels "woo-woo"! 😊 Then you might wish to reflect on these queries.)
- How was it to share MFW with a more-than-human member of the Living World?
- What insights about the testimony you chose arose during Meeting for Worship with the Living World?
- What will being faithful to this testimony in consideration of this being or beings require of me?
- What would my life look like/how would I and my behavior change if I considered/applied the Testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality in reciprocity with The Living World as I do with human beings?
- Do I have any sense of an inward shift in my understanding of my place in the World and in relationship with all the other beings with whom I share it?
- Anything else you’d like to share that is on your heart
3. Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1AIhJKKzY
- https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
- Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let's Start by Ditching "It" https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/together-earth/2015/03/30/alternative-grammar-a-new-language-of-kinship
- On Being Interview: (I recommend listening to the unedited version)
https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants/
https://orionmagazine.org/article/robin-wall-kimmerer-language-animacy/
4 Thomas Berry https://thomasberry.org/
He wrote numerous books about our relationship with the universe, have a look at one or more of these:
- The Dream of the Earth
- The Great Work
- Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
5. Here are a few pieces I’ve written/appeared in:
- Western Friend “A New Story for Earth” https://westernfriend.org/article/new-story-earth
- Western Friend "Speaking of Animacy" https://westernfriend.org/article/speaking-animacy
- Western Friend: "Living Grief; Finding Connection" https://westernfriend.org/article/living-grief-finding-connection
- This article now available to subscribers; paywall removed in a few months...or email me directly (earthling27@gmail.com) for PDF
6. Emergence Magazine & Podcasts:
- https://emergencemagazine.org
- https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/
For the link immediately above, I particularly recommend listening to this one first-- - https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-myth-of-progress/
- https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-aromas-of-trees-five-practices
7. Joanna Macy video: Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path: https://vimeo.com/58845548