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Scenes from a writing weekend

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Over the weekend I had the good fortune to attend a women’s writing and meditation retreat. I can’t think of anything I would rather have been doing in the first days of the new year than listening to poetry, writing, … Continue reading →

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From a contemplative weekend

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I just spent several beautiful and quiet days next to Tomales Bay and Point Reyes, California. (Yes, by myself I’m raising the earth temp from all my recent air travel.) The occasion was a retreat for academics sponsored by the … Continue reading →

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We, the Earth: Ecological crisis as spiritual practice

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

“There is no separate self,” say the Buddhists. Twenty-five years ago I couldn’t warm up to the idea. Of course selves are separate; that’s why I was putting so much individual work into building one. Separate self? It was repetitious, … Continue reading →

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Connecting with a cottonwood

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

It’s a treat to return in August to Prescott, Arizona, with its annual din of cicadas. Today, as I approach the corridor of trees lining summer-dry Granite Creek, the chorus of insects in the treetops is boisterous. Eagerly I slip … Continue reading →

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Deliver me in a black-winged bird: Meeting an eagle

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Midnight blue water rested at the horizon under a brightening sky, framing shafts of pine and fir at shore’s edge. It was a July dawn in 1995, and I was visiting Lopez Island, off the coast of Seattle, birdwatching. Bald … Continue reading →

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