welcome to the remedy basket.
a vessel for making, and unmaking.
This is a new experiment, and it’s lovely to have you on one side of it. Here, I want to weave stories from the edges of my senses, to listen like an arboreal body, one that processes truth from the roots to the trunk to the branches - from the most vital parts of the body out. What might life be like if all our brilliant ideas came seeping up from under our feet? Coaxing this idea into reality might be just the remedy humanity needs right now.
As for the basketry, I am making this space to wonder at the vital intersection of warp and weft, the place where things get complex, and how to welcome that complexity with integrity. It’s also time we unweave the broken bits of this basket called humanity and mend it with stronger sticks - the ones called
Listen, Rejoice, Create, Grieve, Discern, Integrate, Imagine, and Bow.
These sticks call for stronger hands and a bigger imagination than what we’ve so far been utilizing. This is important now, because the way we do ‘human’ is changing - deconstructing - and quickly. There is so much that is broken, and needs composting, so much grief that needs collective churning, transforming. Grieving makes visible the marvelously beautiful. To marvel is not something special we humans do, it is something we learn from birdsong, spring shoots, half gone trees still reaching skyward, moss and mycelium. They, like us, know that to marvel at the world is to be included in it. And when we are included, we are more beautiful, less destructive, and more humble. That’s a remedy I believe we deeply need right now, the remedy that remembers us to the sacred practice of wonder and awe.
You will likely hear from me a few times a month, aiming to make the rhythm of what you receive digestible, yet spacious. I’ll be recording some of what I write to give your eyes a break and engage your ears.
I’m not doing any of the reward/punishment tricks to get you to subscribe. I loath that kind of interaction. Instead, I invite you to only read what seems to add to your own basket - to use this as a place to gather good materials for your own basket mending. If you feel a spark to give something in return, you can subscribe. I also have a contribute button on my website, to which you can contribute any amount, in any interval you like if the substack options don’t work for you. I will use donations to continue to offer full gift economy (free) healthcare to anyone in need and carve out a bit more time to write. I believe in the gift economy, one built on the example of how the earth gives, like a mother, without regret. Your witness here is a gift, thank you.
