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The Ghosts Among Us

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jul 3, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth

There was a long period of my life where I felt like I floated among the living like a ghost. Invisible. Irrelevant. Hiding in plain sight. As long as I was silent and made no waves, I was allowed to float around unperturbed. When I spoke, or tried to make a wave, I...

Devastation = Bad | A Conversation With My Ego

by Dr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Blog, Family and Community Healing | Jun 26, 2020 | Reconnect With Earth

Pandemic, demonstrations, and recession. Sounds like one hot mess. Or is it? Well… what about this confluence of events is NOT disruptive, devastating, and uncomfortable? All that is bad, right? Not necessarily. Disruption, devastation, and discomfort can actually...

The Silent Bark

by Dr. Kimberly Andrews | Blog, Family and Community Healing | Jun 24, 2020 | Voices of Nature

A co-worker and I were driving home from work late tonight late because we were out at Okefenokee Swamp Park conducting alligator research. We were having a conversation about how amazing it is that through [insert explanatory force of your preference here…God, fate,...

Richmond Earth Series – June 2020

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jun 22, 2020 | richmond earth series, Videos

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Up-Ending One-Upsmanship

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth

Up-ending One-Upsmanship Do the dynamics around our national dialogue about race remind you of a dysfunctional married couple? Both sides are feeling unheard, hurt, and unloved, and it feels like each side is speaking a different language. The rhetoric heats up...

Back to the Trees

by Dr. Kimberly Andrews | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Voices of Nature

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Now, it is time to head back to the trees. We literally are going to talk about trees in this blog, but I mean this figuratively as well about a sense of mental escape. Thinking about “heading back to the trees” gives me a sense of...

Love is an Active Verb

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth

I used to think love was just a feeling, that warmth of affection or romance that we feel in our hearts. Before I married decades ago, I had also heard that marriage was a lot of work, like changing diapers and doing chores. But I know from hard-earned experience...

Home and Commercial Composting

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jun 11, 2020 | digging deeper, Family and Community Healing, Videos

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From Grief to Healing

by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it feels like the bottom has fallen out from beneath us. Again. And again. And again. When will it end? The last several months have been a seemingly unremitting series of surprises, loss and grief, and what feels like...