My latest challenge is to communicate ancestor work, which is much subtler than any language, and which is genetic, cultural, and spiritual at the same time. Here’s a try, in the Spring 2022 issue of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects: https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2022/03/11/with-in/.
It’s great being back on the journal as poetry editor, bringing lots of refreshed energy. We were able to bring in some of my favorite ecofeminist writers with poems by Susan Griffin, bell hooks, Ellen Bass, and Marie Howe. Check it out here: https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/march-2022-issue/.
The rest of the issue was awesome to help with, as well. I got to compile resources on Thich Nhat Hanh and honor the relationship of his work to bring the idea of “interbeing” to the west and Joanna Macy’s work to integrate Tibetan Buddhist teachings with western systems theory. And we were able to honor bell hooks’s passing, appropriately, in this special issue on unraveling patriarchy. I can not bow low enough to hooks’s and Nhat Hanh’s lineages without “touching the earth“ in full prostration.
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