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The Three Ladies There on the top of the hill, among the rocks, right at the edge of the spring, lived three Ladies. They danced under the moon and the stars, waving in the wind melodies. They had grown up there, the three sisters intertwined. They talked to the freshwater flowing from the…

DOING THINGS WITH STORIES — And it’s online, my storied essay “The Blind Oracle,” along with other amazing stories. Check them out here. All these stories were selected for the Doing Things with Stories (DTwS) Global Participation Intensive, from ArtEZ University of the Arts, Oxfam, and Radboud University. Doing Things with Stories (DTwS) is a…

Happy Winter Solstice! — 🌚 Intelligibility and communication with the more-than-human. 🌚 Concerning prophecies, riddles, and parables and how they touch the heart. 🌚 About not always being clearly understood, nor understanding everything linearly. 🌚 About the deep need to be genuinely indecipherable and unintelligible. 🌚 Regarding the shape-shifting through living discourse centered in…

Water-centric forgotten Wisdom — This essay is but a humble offering, a word libation to the waters. So, firstly, I will tell an old story, a tale of a silenced Ocean, offering the original myth like it was written in the XIV century. …

What is eco-systemic wisdom anyway? It sounds like a fancy name, but it is something we all come equipped to do and be. — ⛰ This is visceral and experiential wisdom, an integrated presence of our multiple intelligences, urgent to rescue. A listening without presuming that what is outside is a resource or even has to be mutilated to exclusive human utility. ⛰ Eco-systemic wisdom is animistic, intergenerational, communal, and contextual; it is collected…

The threshold of when we were landscape — For twenty years, I’ve been working with people and places, and I also write fabulated tales (1) from pre-agrarian realities, echoing whispers from the land, recollecting shamanic ancient ways of life in the Iberian Peninsula. These contextual stories are not escapes from the perilous times we live in. On the…

The Last Guardian of the Rock-Womb — Here in the liminal space between land and tides, the tattooed Priestess protects life’s transitions, singing incantations that evoke the primal power of the salty waters and the rocky ground, while the smoky embers keep the wild threshold alive. The ancient caves she guards were carved manually into the abyss…

In the romantic modern-urban narrative, Nature is often an escape, a refuge to escape the intensity of Life, schedules, responsibilities, and to-dos. …