The Way of the Goldfinch – Emergence Magazine

Watching a goldfinch sway on a blade of grass, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder writes to her soon-to-be born daughter about beauty, balance, and lessons of uncertainty.

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50 Seasonal Meditations – An Emergence Magazine Production

From “Frog” to “Too Much Smoke,” explore our new interactive feature of fifty audio practices inviting you to immerse your senses in subtle seasonal expressions beyond the familiar categories of summer, spring, autumn, and winter.

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AI & Spiritual Life – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

While AI is already profoundly changing our realities, can it really help us with the shift in consciousness we urgently need to restore our relationship with the living world, asks author and Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.

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Language is a Fluid – Jake Skeets

Featuring two pieces from his new collection, Horses, this new op-ed by Diné poet Jake Skeets explores how poetry sidesteps the failures of language when it doesn’t attempt to do anything.

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Entering the Bardo – Emergence Magazine

In this op-ed, eco-philosopher and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy introduces us to the bardo—the Tibetan Buddhist concept of a gap between worlds where transition is possible.

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Beginning with Seeds: Restoration in the Wake of Wildfires – Lauren E. Oakes

Amid the devastation wrought by the Palisades and Eaton Fires in Southern California, environmental scientist Lauren E. Oakes considers what seeds we can plant to help restore life and Earth in the wake of profound loss.

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There Is No Show More Beautiful Than This – Tove Danovich

In this op-ed, Tove Danovich witnesses hundreds of thousands of Vaux’s swifts make their annual descent upon a schoolhouse chimney in Portland, Oregon, as part of their autumn migration—their fleeting presence a moment of joy amid uncertainty.

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