On Community: The More-Than-Human World

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March 20, 2025 a project of ServiceSpace Nature's intelligence wants to live through us… - Gail Bradbrook - On Community: The More-Than-Human World Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the more-than-human world, finding ease in its familiar safety. People exist in the background; my foreground is the present moment. Never empty. Always a canvas—Butterflies. Dried leaves. Twigs I like to hold. Worm castings brushing my heels. A bird call.” She breathes better. In fact, she says, “I am breathed,” in the way she breathed “a quiet sigh before I knew I needed one.” She also feels invited: “A twig. A dying lizard. The first summer rain. Everything calls, if I listen.” Tess seeks to understand “the nature of invitations in the human world too.” “Through the more-than-human world, I find the safety to look again—at the people who matter to me. I cannot live without notions. I cannot live without friends.” { read more } Be The Change Accept an invitation to become a student of one life form in your more-than-human world - bird, plant, bee... What is the intelligence they share with you? COMMENT | RATE             DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 147,501 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More