What if myths are places where the earth dreams through us? Vietnam’s Dragon and Phoenix each embody a combination of earthly and aquatic qualities that echo the ancient mangroves, wetlands and estuaries that make up the coastal landscape from which these mythic beings emerge. In this courtship of human imagination and the earthly world, the land dreams herself into creaturely form, hatching more of herself into being in this marriage-place of worlds, a place of encounter and reciprocal becoming. What becomes possible when we open ourselves to the earth’s wild intelligence, allowing its ways of becoming to move through and shape the way we make sense of our present day stories and our lives?
Read MoreLoon Woman: When the Wild Gives Grief a Voice
What if the haunting call of Loon is not simply a sound across the water, but the voice of grief itself? In age old legends of Loon in North American indigenous folklore, Loon emerges as a mythic figure of grief and transformation—a maternal keeper of what is too painful to see, and a compassionate witness to both the wounds we suffer and the wounds we inflict. She does not make tragedy disappearr; she enters the darkness with us. Meeting Loon Woman in the storied world, grief takes on a creaturely body: feathered, aquatic, wild, and we come to know something of this creature called grief.
Read MoreShe Wore The Forest: Moss, Magic and the Making of a Sovereign Self
Mossy Coat is an Old English fairytale about the ingenuity and creativity of a wild forager and weaver who sews her daughter a coat of wild mosses so she can disguise herself, escape poverty, avoid an unwanted marriage and determine her own destiny. It is how even a small diminutive plant like moss can be protective, nurturing, empowering and magical, and how a coat of moss gives the heroine a sense of wildness, freedom, and sovereignty over her own life. An enduring folktale that lives on like wild moss, wielding its quiet power. . .
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