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Diversity & Decolonisation Circle: Our Transformation

After three intense and generative years of weekly meetings, the small group of Deep Adaptation Volunteers who convened the DAF Diversity and Decolonising Circle have shifted to new roles in Deep Adaptation and wider global projects around decolonising, antiracism and diversity. These volunteers...

Collaboration, diversity and decolonising, grief, group processes, racism, white supremacy

The Wretch and A Tree of Life

A wretched sly man got himself in a quiet place. He was at the end of his rope, exhausted by hunger and life’s injustice. He sat down there … … with nothing but a solitary tree. The tree was full of life, rejoicing, and listening to everything around it. ...

creative expression, ESL, life lessons, metaphor, Nature, parable, spiritual stories, transformation

It’s Not the Same World

It feels now, as if we are just waiting. My world is the same old safe, seeming, and I make the same arguments to explain some things. The past is co-operatively fuzzy, re just how many bushfires, how much...

Australia, climate change, ecoanxiety, ecological emergency, extreme weather, fear for the future, leadership, personal journey, poetry

Deeply Adapting with Pleasure

We think we have to get to the bottom of that to-do list before we can slow down. We resort to shallow “self-care” that’s more about consumption than deep care for our being. We bypass so many moments of possible delight, like relishing the nuance of a morning coffee.

awareness, beauty, connectedness, embodiment, Health, oneness, pleasure, resilience, slow down

Coping with Collapse: The Goddess

Each day, I believe I will see the sun rise and fall. But if you asked me about my journey regarding faith, religion, spirituality or life philosophy, my answers would be much less clearcut. My Polish father was a steadfast Roman Catholic until 1949, when he lost his only son. He then joined...

biography, collapse, goddess, spirituality

September 14, 2023
Steve Miller
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Deranged

Deranged, unbalanced, anxious, the earth cries and slouches toward infinity without a rudder, or barrels toward tomorrow, devastating the coast, flinging cars, this cancer born of progress, the tumor too much, too fast, too big to fail. A deep breath after a chaotic...

poetry

It’s a Matter of Time

Before we enter the (Lakota) Sweat Lodge, we often shout out Hoka hey! It’s a good day to die. This expression always brings me down to Earth, to my feet and the present moment. It reminds me that I am very much alive and that entering the Sweat Lodge has definite risks. Be alert. Be...

Hero addiction

Is it possible to be addicted to stories? I don’t mean in the sense of compulsively reading books (though I can, from personal experience, attest to the existence of that trait, too) but in the sense of interpreting the world around us through particular kinds of narratives, like someone who...

narratives, stories

Falling

We are finding it hard to feel safe. We all have favorite people and places that make us feel safe. In those places and with those people we feel we are free from danger. Whether we really are is another story. Being with one of my favourite people, in one of my favourite...

balance, falling, vulnerability

Welcome to 2023. Time for new stories

One year ago I wrote the text “End of stories. Welcome to 2022” about the world that is stuck in the grip of old stories that no one believes anymore, and still they continue to define our lives. During this year, we have returned to the past even more: we got rid of the illusion of progress, a...

stories