Partnering with Nature for a Vibrant Future: Community Vision

We heeded the occasion of ONE’s 10th anniversary as a call to action, and we envisioned a living blueprint for our vibrant future.

Together, we move to rededicate ourselves to Earth and all her beings and renew our commitments to a thriving co-creative partnership with all life.  We come together in the present to tend to the future. 

This document is a summary of highlights from each of the four questions posed to the panel and community.  Responses have been edited for length and clarity.  Thank you for contributing and participating in this vital conversation. 

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In Nature's Rhythm by Leah Black

Birds pray to a rising sun in a respectful slip of unfamiliar silence, as the village fades away with each step towards swelling mountain peaks. Four days alone in the wilds embark. No watch, phone or company by my side. Solo, free, timeless solitude. A quest for vision and meaning. A walk without destination. It is the build up to Samhain, warm air and cosy glows of crispy colour.

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The Touch of Kinship by Leah Black

The ancient wooded path, sharp with afternoon summer light, was arduous and rewarding to walk as always. Draped with edgy stone shadows, lined regally with grass as beige and crispy as bailed hay, adorned with red clover, daisies and dandelion…

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My Island Mother by Laura Margosian

Laura Margosian writes with lush lyricism about the month of May and formative visits with her mother on Martha’s Vineyard. She conveys the wistfulness and longing which many of us feel as we approach Mother’s Day and the season of summer. While doing so, Laura illustrates the concept of Motherhood through our surroundings of the natural world.

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Lone Tree on a Hill

Lone Tree on a Hill

- a poem by Rachel Baird about a new friend she recently met-a tree, high on a hill near Inverliever, Argyll. Enjoy!


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The Girl Who Loved the North Wind

This story, “The Girl Who Loved the North Wind” came to me through the wonderful book Body Eloquence by story-teller-teacher-author-healer Nancy Mellon. This special book not only affirms the healing, life-giving power of stories and story-telling, it also offers specific stories for particular body organs and systems. “The Girl Wo Loved the North Wind” is given as a medicine story for the Lungs.

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Snake Magic

A young woman receives her father’s dying blessing, but is violently chased from home by her greedy brother. Maimed and wandering one-handed in the forest, she is temporarily rescued by a Prince. But fate and her brother send her into exile in the wild again. And then, the Snake magic begins!

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Lasts

And so I’ve come to appreciate lasts, and maybe not cling to them. Honoring them, instead of hoarding them. Slowing down to pay attention and anticipate them, rather than living at a blinding, consumptive speed.

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Earth Nourishment

Honestly, it is ridiculous how nature spoils us in abundance. There is really no way to ever be sufficiently grateful for all we have been given. The heaviness that starts to gather on the land at this time rises up in one last push of expansion. We hear the Earth whisper: “I nourish.” At the same time, we feel that same heaviness begin to sink, decline, and fall back to the ground, the fall winds rustling, “I transform.”

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