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Tipping Points & Ecological Thresholds

Welcome HOME from WILDLANDANCE & Sylvia Rains Dennis:

Wherever you are, you have a community, a place, and the unlimited potential to contribute to our collective ecological and cultural sustainability as part of what connects us ALL . . .

Thank you, for sharing this earth, sky, water, and story of our amazing biodiversity!​​

12th of December, 2022

During the current critical focus on biodiversity, cultural knowledge, indigenous languages, sustainable homelands, our changing, still wild and restorable natural world, here are a few stanzas and a pastel sketch from November:

                                                      i.

listening to the soft, the liquid

beyond the known firmness

the world sings back

                             because we

                                              remember.

                                                 ii.

the eclipse

of the unseen

combs the missing

through climates of belonging

until the veiled shore

reveals stones,

                           inhaled breath freezes

                           bare mouthfuls

                           of unforgottens—

while 

        the ringed orb blinks:

so the weaving

                         yet relies

                                    upon invisible threads.

                                               iii.

mapped nerves

                       within a clay self

pulse              wave

                                                      sting

            re  :  cover

                             the way back

               into a bubbled hymn

formed 

          by unfolding darkness

                                to sing sheaves

                                            of 

                                               light.

                                                   iv.

ice thaws,

reveals

the

armature

of 

the 

not here.

[sylvia rains dennis,  2022; excerpted from lyric poetry colln.]

November 2022 Greetings,  WILDLANDANCE visitors as well as lifelong to more recent fellow strivers on behalf of all being & longing.

If you ​arrive here because my LinkedIn account is in hibernation, I apologize for any delay in contacting me. By necessity, to care for an emergency, I may need to pause my account from time to time. 

The WILDLANDANCE website--which has been active as an educational and collaborative resource--will also transform by the end of 2022. In anticipation of this change, I will be adding some past work descriptions by request. The calendar page has not been updated recently, but still gives an idea of what's possible in case site visitors would like to engage in any such activities, many of which are annual events.

In the meantime, you are welcome to send a message, keeping in mind that a longer than usual response time is likely.

THE WILDLANDANCE FOCUS:

To share our understanding of the natural environment and many conservation and restoration needs, we continue our extensive collaborations with:

• land-based peoples of the Rocky Mountains & beyond
• plant & wildlife habitat specialists
• conservation & restoration ecologists
• educators & community members
• sustainability advocates
• and all of you!

Happy International Biodiversity Day, 

May 22!

When we learn to see ourselves as the reflection of our interconnectivity with the natural world, horizons open into celebrating all the company we keep. This shows our endless potential and our strength, as part of the whole.

In gratitude to the ones who 

te​ach us who we are, from every seed to each expression of birdsong as well as the hum of the smallest pollinating insect

----and all who help us learn 

from the heart, expanding our understanding.

(Please click on the Shooting Stars painting above for an activity to share!)