I was asked to write on ecothanatos, an emerging theme in my study group where we engage in practicing other ways of learning with the more-than-human world. The word teases me. What can I learn […]
Author: heidenjoy
Writing (with) Olive (Join us on July 16th)
– A blog written in co-creation with session co-hosts Youssef Mahmoud, Konkankoh Joshua, and Olive Here in the south of Portugal, we are readying for an online session of writing (with) plants on Thursday July […]
Flowing with Eglė: remaining open for bittersweet deaths
Where can we live? Where can we thrive? There’s a million and one mysteries to be explored in life, but in this blog I want to write about my foundation for joy and thriving. In […]
Flowing with Eglė: Leaving the Patriarchy
Eglė let me re-member my devastated grandmother in May 1945. The day the war was over and the Red Army on their way west, she decided together with her husband to flee within a matter […]
Coming home
To get things out of the way, I would like to begin my first blog with death. As integral part of, not in opposition to, life. Sweet foreshadowing of coming home, full circle. The western […]