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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“We look upon the world / to see ourselves in the brief moment that we are of the earth / a small fern in a crevice of the cliff face.” From our latest print volume, Time, read “We Look at the World to See the Earth,” by Ed Roberson. buff.ly/OPtSxQj

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In celebration of Earth Day, this week's podcast invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. Listen here: buff.ly/zCQxfK1 Illustration by Daniel Liévano. @dghaskell.bsky.social

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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join us @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social on Earth Day! Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in conversation with Katie Holten & Emily Raboteau to celebrate the publication of her book, MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 6pm PT / 9pm ET ZOOM, register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... #naturewriting

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In honor of Pope Francis’s passing, we revisit his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’—a call to care for our common home, the Earth. In this essay, Paul Elie explores how religion and the natural world might come together for shared renewal. Read “Ecological Conversion.” buff.ly/22enhOi

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JanetLMP @jlmp17.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

“i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely” ~ Ntozake Shange

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the living world shimmered with a divine feminine presence—a fecund and endless substance, sprung from the unseen world, that spoke to him from grove, in birdsong, on the breath of wind. Read our newsletter: Rewilding in the Company of Mystics. buff.ly/c2UQiO2

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“The concept of an unchanging wilderness—its panoramas predictable, its seasons unrolling like backdrops in a school play—is a fiction.” Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1

A wide expanse of a beach beside the ocean with pools of water and a barnacle-encrusted tree stump in the foreground with a tree-covered hump in the distance surrounded by further tree stumps in the sand.

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and despair. Read “A Small King” by @nicktriolo.bsky.social. buff.ly/TivAReZ

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“The Painted Lady’s migration, chronicled in the photographer Lucas Foglia’s new book, “Constant Bloom,” is a powerful reminder of our interconnections with nature and our shared stake in an ever-changing world.” @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social

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Opinion | These Butterflies Fly 9,300 Miles to Survive

The butterflies’ resilience shows that some species are capable of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability and urban development.

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Just as nature finds a way, Robin has found her devoted readers. And during a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher.” @lizgilbert.bsky.social on Robin Wall Kimmerer for Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2025.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025

Find out why Robin Wall Kimmerer is on this year’s list

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“Once upon a time giants sculpted the sand, but now it is us who are the giants. The question we must ask now is how we use our power.” — @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Home to vast sands raised from the sea five thousand years ago, the wooden throne of a giantess, and legends of a vindictive dragon, the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea is a storied landscape that has been profoundly shaped by humans. Read this week's newsletter. buff.ly/XAeSq7I

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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/04/2025

4. Telling the Bees (Emily Polk, @emergencemagazine.bsky.social) "I love how Emergence Magazine publishes pieces that combine science, nature, and memoir. This mix of fact and personal perception makes for the most interesting reading." emergencemagazine.org/essay/tellin...

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Telling the Bees – Emily Polk

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Nightingale’s Song asks: What would it mean if the nightingale and its song were lost from the English landscape? Explore our new film series engagement guide, and reflect on how experiencing love and grief simultaneously can deepen your connection with your landscape. buff.ly/FwlqroV

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves.” Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J

A person standing in a field of wildflowers in a beekeeping jacket with hood and net covered head holds a frame of bees up towards the light of the sky.

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Traversing the Curonian Spit, home to vast sands that move, rise, and may disappear entirely due to human activity, @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social journeys through the landscape’s buried past to understand how we have altered geological time. Read “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/VldxZZf

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join us for Offprint London at Tate Modern in London for three days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community. From Friday, May 16, through Sunday, May 18. buff.ly/KjPq8Ro

Graphic with stylized text: Offprint London, 16–18, 05.2025, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/04/2025

"Maybe the lesson then was the same as it is now: We are all just trying to survive. We are not done yet." —Emily Polk for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/07/t...

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In this week’s podcast, Emily Polk learns of the enduring generosity and spirit of survival of these tiny creatures, and glimpses the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world. Listen to “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/ofwBkko

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

"While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves." – Emily Polk, from Telling The Bees [via @emergencemagazine.bsky.social]

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Telling the Bees – Emily Polk

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is gorgeous:

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Referred to as sacred tears of God, emissaries for the ancestors, and message-carriers to the afterlife, bees have long resided at the heart of cultural practices straddling life and death. Read this week's newsletter, Telling the Bees Your Grief. buff.ly/20DO78t

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A fine thing to listen to today, to set my soul in the right place for good trouble.

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“I love that the origin of the word “reciprocity” comes from the Latin word that means “back and forth.” So there is a back-and-forth, a dance. The birds give, we give back, and we engage in a continuous dance of reciprocity.” —César Rodríguez-Garavito Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival. Read this week’s essay, “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/zHqQbvs

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our new companion Engagement Guide invites you to weave each film in our Shifting Landscapes series with your own story; host a film screening; open a dialogue within community; and cultivate a living connection with your landscape. buff.ly/eAa8x4h

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This week’s podcast explores the creation of a song made not just in a forest, but in conscious collaboration with it. Listen to “Song of the Cedars,” a conversation with Giuliana Furci, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social. buff.ly/GRrqf53

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triciajobrien @triciajobrien.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This podcast and song are so beautiful and enlightening. If you stop in your tracks to listen to a bird, or if you write a poem or paint a scene after an encounter in nature, if you are concerned with the fragility of our ecosystems, I think you will be glad to spend time with this.

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Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is brilliant and very provocative … the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador legally recognized as agent, author, and co-creator in collaboration with its human partners. I can’t stop thinking about this! More on MOTH (More Than Human Life) Project here: mothrights.org

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to flow with love magic; to “swim in its currents” to offset the greed and extraction that is consuming the world. Listen to “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/7Vio14h

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In this week's conversation, More Than Human (MOTH) Life Collective members share their ongoing project to gain legal recognition of a cloud forest in Ecuador as co-creator of the musical composition “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/fhVrrWz @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Introducing our Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide—a space for reflection, discussion, and practice on each of films’ explorations of uncertainty, loss, and great change in the places we call home. buff.ly/8AVkx7B

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A blurry image of a hand placing a small flower amongst the grass and dirt, with text: What is something in your home place that is beginning to change or disappear? Shifting Landscapes Film Series, Engagement Guide

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In this week's podcast episode, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband,” Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic and explores how we might slip between the cracks of the linear and maintain connection across time. buff.ly/tcyCuYT

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.” Read a new essay from Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/puXGsbM

“You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.” —Tyson Yunkaporta

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A fascinating listen/read from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social by Tyson Yunkaporta “people of bad faith with extractive agendas of dominance and cruelty are incapable of love, and therefore incapable of time travel” emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-ti...

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The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband – Tyson Yunkaporta

Using the connective power of love magic and a traditional boomerang encoded with relational knowledge, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta throws “spears” at the arrow of linear time.

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Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Lots to explore! I’m particularly looking forward to Jenny Odell on “the social and cultural ideas that underpin … mechanized time, and [how we] attune to the rhythms of the Earth and embrace interruptions that allow us to glimpse the inherent unpredictability and creativity of every moment.”

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Traveling through time, in our science fiction imaginations, is often about going back through history or forward into the future. But how might we slip between the cracks of the linear, and maintain connection across time? Read this week's newsletter. buff.ly/qLNbP07

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Brooke @bkuhnhaus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Kairos time, Deep time. As Bayo Akomolafe says: “ the times are urgent, we must slow down” … this kind of profound presence, needed now more than ever.

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What choices, what futures, might become possible, @jennitaur.bsky.social asks, if we stepped out of chronos time and towards a kairos time? Listen to this week’s podcast episode from Volume 5, “Another Kind of Time: A Conversation with Jenny Odell.” buff.ly/lncRE2Z

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KR Morris @krmorris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every week, new delight:

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"You can’t use magic or make magic," writes Yunkaporta; "you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you. Such are the informatics of complex systems like land & sea & sky. People get excited about mycelia, but those are just the wires. Spirit is the signal." ♥️

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Using the connective power of love magic and a traditional boomerang encoded with relational knowledge, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta throws “spears” at the arrow of linear time. Read “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/F2VmWD4

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