Forum: Earthcare Witness - May 14, 2023

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1. To hear more about Quakers and Earthcare, please sign up for our quarterly newsletter: https://quakerearthcare.org/category/befriending-creation/   And, take a look at our website - we have lots of resources and inspiring stories https://quakerearthcare.org/

2.  Queries from today.  (I invite you to take the step to have Meeting for Worship with a more-than-human member of the Living World--even it if feels "woo-woo"! ?  Then you might wish to reflect on these queries.)

• How was it to share MFW with a more-than-human member of the Living World?
• What insights about  the testimony you chose arose during Meeting for Worship with the Living World? 
• What will being faithful to this testimony in consideration of this being or beings require of me?
• What would my life look like/how would I and my behavior change if I considered/applied the Testimonies of  Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality in reciprocity with The Living World as I do with human beings?
• Do I have any sense of an inward shift in my understanding of my place in the World and in relationship with all the other beings with whom I share it?
• Anything else you’d like to share that is on your heart

3. Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Braiding Sweetgrass
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1AIhJKKzY
• https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
• Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let's Start by Ditching "It" https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/together-earth/2015/03/30/alternative-grammar-a-new-language-of-kinship 
• On Being Interview: (I recommend listening to the unedited version)  
  https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants/ 
  https://orionmagazine.org/article/robin-wall-kimmerer-language-animacy/

4  Thomas Berry  https://thomasberry.org/
He wrote numerous books about our relationship with the universe, have a look at one or more of these:

•       The Dream of the Earth
•       The Great Work
•       Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

5. Here are a few pieces I’ve written/appeared in:

• Western Friend “A New Story for Earth” https://westernfriend.org/article/new-story-earth
• Western Friend  "Speaking of Animacy" https://westernfriend.org/article/speaking-animacy
• Western Friend: "Living Grief; Finding Connection" https://westernfriend.org/article/living-grief-finding-connection
• This article now available to subscribers; paywall removed in a few months...or email me directly (earthling27@gmail.com) for PDF

6.  Emergence Magazine & Podcasts:

• https://emergencemagazine.org
• https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/
  For the link immediately above, I particularly recommend listening to this one first--
• https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-myth-of-progress/
• https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-aromas-of-trees-five-practices

7. Joanna Macy video: Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path: https://vimeo.com/58845548