Today it doesn’t matter whether or not I can prove how alive the world is. It doesn’t matter if I can prove an electron is having an experience. What matters is that I can feel stories everywhere. Stories that don’t depend on language. Stories that don’t depend on singularity. Stories that only occur interstitially, between beings, in the fertile, friction-prickled boundaries between differences.
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You do not need to build an ancestor altar. You do not need to trace your bloodline back ten generations. Ancestry isn’t a lineage. It is a nonlinear tangle of animacy with multiple points of entry. For me, ancestry extends beyond the human. It is rhizomatic, rooting into different species and deep time.
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I think the fairies are back. And they’re even smaller. I think they got smaller, not in order to disappear, but in order to reappear, in the new age of the “true.” In stories perfectly primed for our scientifically oriented brains. Fairies are back, under the crystalline gaze of the microscope. And they have new names. I give you viruses, microbes, protozoa, fungi, tardigrades also known as “moss piglets,” dust seeds, and those other “smalls” so magical you must look through another “eye” in order to see them.
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“LADY. THAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING I EVER SEEN. YOU MUST BE INSANE,” a woman screamed at me as I ran back to my car.
“I AM! I AM VERY STUPID.” I screamed back, already internally cursing myself.
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by Sophie Strand for my dad You do it although there are not many to show you how: fathering. A...
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.