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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. 

Inspired by Nature - Winter Story with snowflakes, icles, wolves, and caves. Enjoy!

These poems are prayers ~ words of honor and thanksgiving ~ to the myriad beings seen and unseen, with whom I share life in this still-healthy Virginia woodland. I write for my other-than-human friends who speak in languages I, only now, am learning to understand.

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.”

The gateway of moving into heart space with nature is gratitude, and we can decide to bring more gratefulness into our lives and experience more joy. An excellent place within our daily rhythms to cultivate a steady stream of gratitude and to grow our connection with nature is in our relationship with our food.

Come follow the adventures of the girl who must save an enchanted prince, through daring and cleverness and hardship, but also with the help of the ancients and the four great Winds.

Our blood calls us back to knowledge that is much, much older than time. Our blood is the memory of countless generations, all the way back to our common grandmothers of long ago.

We are offering a series of told stories for your enjoyment, healing, unwinding and leaning into the ancestral wisdom passed through tales, myths, and legends. In this story, “The Healing Leaves”, the great-hearted, but perhaps not-too-sensible hero, must overcome overwhelming obstacles to procure healing leaves.

The instinct to rush back to our “normal” lives is understandable, especially for those who are suffering the loss of their livelihoods, but do we really want to go back to the frenzied state of dis-ease we have been conditioned to feel is necessary for survival by our economy of extraction?

"Everything is clearer than you've ever seen it"--April thoughts during times of pandemic

We are offering a series of told stories for your enjoyment, healing, unwinding and leaning into the ancestral wisdom passed through tales, myths, and legends. Our first story, "Xueda and Yinlin", a tale from the Xinjiang province of China, tells the adventures of two courageous young people who seek a cure for the mysterious illness which has stricken their village.

In times of great challenge, it’s only natural for us to seek refuge and healing in the plant world. The pandemic finds plant-medicine people in high demand. Many herb shops are overwhelmed, valiantly serving those in need while adhering to ever stricter social distancing guidelines. Mail-order companies list many herbs as “out of stock” or “sold out” and some have been forced to temporarily close down. So it is good to know that perhaps the most potent healing comes from simply being present with the plants and trees, who have always offered their loving, healing presence and guidance to us humans, their younger siblings. In whatever way we are able, as we “shelter in place,” let’s embrace the kindly shelter of living plants.

Jen Costa, of Elder Moon School of Herbal medicine, leads us through the process of making medicine from the bark of healing trees.

Sanctuary gardens bring people closer to Nature.  They are a safe place where the outside cares of the world do not intrude. They can be a vegetable or flower garden, a special tree or even a single blossom. They are a healing refuge for our bodies, mind and spirit.  People need gardens to re-member and bring balance into their lives.