Greetings from EarthWays : Spring 2024

Bring on the light. Bring on the blossoms, the buds, the green shoots, the tender leaves, the unfurling fiddleheads. Bring on the fragrant scents of flowers. Bring on the returning birds, the tussling squirrels, the laughing children.


We have crossed over.


We stand in Spring. Seeing anew in the bright light the beauty of the natural world. How blessed we are to live in such a glorious place. So much to be grateful for. So much suffering in the world around us, so many problems, and yet, in each sun-filled moment there is so much worthy of our gratitude. How did we get so fortunate to live within such abundance? Let us ask, what is the world asking for in return?


May you find yourself out in a wildly beautiful place soon. May you carry with you more questions than answers. May you receive what you need and find your own way of giving back to the world what it needs in return.


From all of us at EarthWays

These Mornings

by Richard Wehrman


All these mornings

are one morning;

over and over I am

greeted by the new day—

who greets me but

this Self that is your Self?

Beauty flows fresh,

mist and light glowing

in the valleys, brilliance

of gold breaking through

the leaves and branches

of the trees. All around

me the treasures of

the soul have gathered

as beings, as the created

newness of the World.

If I could ask for

any gift to be given

to us all,

over and over

it would simply be

This!

This!

This!


Enraptured with Earth

Two talks by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee


Last summer, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee gave two talks inviting us to fall in love with the Earth again. Feeling strongly that in this time of ecological unraveling the Earth is asking us to return Her ever-present gaze with our tenderness and care, Emmanuel asks how we can expand our love to embrace Her in every moment, in every landscape?


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Because sometimes you just need to shuffle your feet and shake your bones, we share a tune you can rock out to...


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And, with the Spring Equinox, we cross over into the fullness of our guiding season. Please check out our programs...


Program Schedule

Read an excerpt from Scott Eberle's new book, 

The Soul's Red Thread:

Emerging, Transforming, Trusting

Publication anticipated in 2024

 

The Law of the Tapping

“You’re all here to do a four-day vision fast,” said Jen Stevens, our lead guide. “A wilderness fast, at its very heart, is a rite of passage ceremony. And any rite of passage has three phases: Severance, Threshold, Incorporation.”

      I was fascinated by what this woman was saying. At the age of 43, I’d never experienced a proper rite of passage, a coming-of-age ceremony. In my mind, I ran through a few possibilities. College. Psychedelics. Coming out. Medical school. The AIDS epidemic. These all were vital elements of my own passage into adulthood, but none had offered a true ceremonial marking of the transition. And so, I had come here to Death Valley National Park: a far-off place, 400 miles from home.

I’d come here to do my first-ever wilderness fast.


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Wild Girls

How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

by Tiya Miles



A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of 2023


An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.


Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.

This beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races—and the landscapes they loved—at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness, and vision.


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We hope to see you soon