Contemplations in Microcultures of Relational Ecology, Vol 1.
Did you know that feeling troubled is a potent ground for alchemy?
I am troubled by the disturbing disregard for the inherent dignity of all Life of Earth. I feel my grief and my longings for a different way of being together as humans and as Earth. And I feel within me the clear, creative response to the call. Call and response collaborations with the mystery of life are a form of sustenance….
Hello dear fellow travelers.
Did you know that feeling troubled is a potent ground for alchemy?
I am troubled by the disturbing disregard for the inherent dignity of all Life of Earth. I feel my grief and my longings for a different way of being together as humans and as Earth. And I feel within me the clear, creative response to the call.
What about you, neighbour: what call and what longings you listening to?
Call and response collaborations with the mystery of life are a form of sustenance.
What do I mean? Well, I'm tending a current, like a stream from a wellspring, rooted in playful, ecological, liberatory, improvisational arts praxis. This current is deepening in nuance, clarity, and focus as I am immersed in a proliferation of spontaneously arising verdant collaborations with colleagues. Microcultures of Relational Ecology.
I feel very stirred in my heart and woken up to my own life in my own hands, our lives in our own hands.
As this ripple builds, I am feeling buoyant, purposeful. Joyous. Sturdy. Conjuring together with Life is tender, alchemical, verdant.
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" Audre Lorde
"I thought the Earth remembered me, she took me back so lovingly" Mary Oliver
Contemplations in Microcultures of Relational Ecology, Vol 1.
© Katrina Curry; Katriona Ilsedóttir Ó Comhraidhe 2006
January 30, 2026, Lekwungen Territory