International Women’s Day
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day! In the coming week, we’ll be showcasing women who have inspired and deeply influenced our worldview. Each of them is an edge-walker and pioneer in their field, who deeply challenged the status quo and entrenched gender norms.
Decomposing the familiar
Sympoiesis poses the questions: Which structures are refusing to fall? What aspect of decay are we — as individuals, as groups, as a society — resisting against? From the ashes of the old, what are the new stories and structures that will stand the test of time? How do we co-inhabit this planet harmoniously with our more-than-human companions? How do we stay awake and attuned to other life forms and learn from them? What stories want to be told?
Alliances of Aliveness
Sympoiesis is this process of recognizing that *I am because you are*. And you, whoever you are: a mushroom, a bacteria, a pine tree, a river stream, a centipede, a human, or a crow—I cannot exist without your existence. My mind tells me that I *could* survive without you, but it fails to see you and me embedded in this interdependent ecosystem of life.
Belonging at the Estuary
Estuaries are sympoetic spaces —strands of co-becoming and co-evolving. In estuaries, the river imagines what it’s like to dance with the moon as she surrenders to tidal forces. The ocean comes to know itself as the river, fluid and in flux, purifying and life-sustaining. In the estuary, the ocean receives life’s flow and does not resist it.
Antipoiesis or the Unmaking of Worlds
Populating with Pollinators
A Dream on Wings
