Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of the wonderful podcast, Poetry Unbound, has just released a book of forty selected poets with accompanying essays. Read it. Listen to it. Share it with others. Repeat. Poetry for opening the heart and healing the soul. A blessing released into the world.

We love the For the Wild Podcast with Ayana Young! We’ll probably share many epsiodes on this page, but here’s a great one to start: an interview with Ruth Lehav’aya K’isen Miller on softness, reciprocity and care… “It is a sign of strength to be soft. It is a sign of care and devotion to our bodies, our first territories, our first vessels”

It sounds counterintuitive, but we must come face to face with our lostness in order to eventually find our way back in the dark. Listen to more of this thinking in the episode: “Trust, Interbeing And Sacred Sanctuaries” with Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein & Manish Jain.

“If you want to find your way, you must become lost. The idea that we can just will our way into the kind of world we want is naive and sometimes even destructive, as the resilience of colonial imperialism demonstrates.” Bayo Akomolafe

The long view, with love as its measure, is worth developing. Robert Hayden, celebrated 20th century American poet, offers us a model. Read here and listen here. Many thanks to the Poetry Foundation for being a gatherer and sharer of poetry.

Alexis Shotwell unveils the purity narrative of the dominant culture, showing how it blocks us from engaging in change. She urges us not to strive towards perfect worlds, for they don’t exist, but to make imperfect attempts in creating more hospitable worlds.

Of course, there is a For the Wild podcast to listen to on this.

Angela Garbes writing on motherhood and mothering is fiercely humane. She draws back the curtain to show the networks of care that keep society afloat.

“To commit to witnessing, to ‘merely’ showing up’: mothering, fathering, parenting, leading and following, articulating what you know and admitting what you don’t, doing things well, making mistakes, getting over it all and getting on with it. How is this anything but unequivocally right? To be part of the humbling and heroic, the smallest details that comprise a child’s big, wondrous life— that is our duty of care.” (p. 208)