Category Archives: nature

Happy Holy $hit Day!

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Happy Diwali! The Hindu Festival of Lights began yesterday, all dazzling color and light and yummy foods. A lesser-known holiday celebrating the other end of the food cycle takes place today. Here is my post in honor of Govardhan Puja, … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged agriculture, cycle of life, factory farming, farming, food, holidays, manure, organic, permaculture, sustainability, sustainable agriculture, Vandana Shiva | Comments Off

Brother Francis and Brother Mitt

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The other day I passed a house with two icons in the yard. The contradiction between them was so glaring it pierced me. One was a statue of Saint Francis, or as he preferred to be called, Brother Francis. The … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, spirituality | Tagged election, poverty, St. Francis, values | 3 Comments

The power of we, multiplied

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Today is Blog Action Day 2012, and bloggers around the world are thinking and writing about “The Power of We,” highlighting themes of community, equality, and freedom. What better day to talk about the wider circle of friends taking part … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, community, land-community, relationships | Comments Off

The TNB self-interview

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The Nervous Breakdown is a site to be explored at leisure—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by published and emerging writers plus reviews of music and arts & culture. One feature they offer is self-interviews by emerging writers, and I was honored to … Continue reading →

Posted in book, nature, spirituality, writing | Tagged book writing, history, history of ideas, science, science and religion, writing | Comments Off

To be generous: Yoga with Wendy Bramlett

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

As I enter this happy season of launching my new book, my heart and thoughts also travel to two people I was close to who died over the summer. This is truly a “textured time,” as a poet friend of … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality, writing | Tagged body intelligence, earth intelligence, listening, living and dying, nonviolence, peace, Wendy Bramlett, writing, yoga | 16 Comments

Across a birding threshold

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

This week I crossed a birding threshold. I chased a rare bird. Now, I’ve known about the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for a long time, began visiting the web page months ago. In the spring I subscribed to the email updates, … Continue reading →

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Seven weeks after the Flagstaff Fire

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I’m delighted to welcome guest blogger Dave Sutherland, who provides this peek at our local forest recovering from a recent fire. Dave is a naturalist interpreter with the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, where the fire burned … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged aspens, Douglas fir, fire, fireweed, Flagstaff Fire, forest fire, Rocky Mountain maple, snowberry, spreading dogbane | 5 Comments