It’s a bad time to be an empath, especially with the vast range of non-human life forms with whom we humans share the Earth.
Cli-Fi Blog
Reincarnation Changes Everything, and so Does Empathy…
What if each of our souls has cycled through many incarnations over many millennia, in every part of the world, as every kind and color of race and appearance, as every gender—male and female, Two Spirit, non-binary?
30 Years of Praying for Rain
Some days it feels like I’ve spent 30 years praying for rain.
The Cougar’s Lament
Hunger stalks the wind. These winds that do not stop burn my nose, and I cannot smell the scent of food, the scent of my children, the scent of my mate. These winds are harsh on my soft coat, howling in my ears in place of the roar of streams, the soft pattern of rain on leaves, the purring of my cubs.
Santa Fe’s First Year without Winter
This may come as news to people in the eastern half of the US and Canada, and certainly to friends in Southcentral Alaska who just experienced their coldest winter on record, but here in Santa Fe, at an altitude of 7000 ft., we had no winter.
Book Review: Water Mamas
I found myself pulled into the world of author Mona Shomali’s Water Mamas on the first page, which paints a mysterious dream vision of a mermaid-like female spirit figure with an urgent message for the book’s main character, Afa. How will Afa balance her UN job, her understanding and respect for Indigenous sovereignty and human rights, and the possibilities and pitfalls of combining science and spirituality to rebalance Earth’s swiftly deteriorating climate system in ways that will be beneficial for all?
A Poem: Who Picked these Strawberries I Eat?
I wonder whose hands, quick and gentle, picked these ripe and luscious organic strawberries? And are they safe right now?
“Flow” is Really a Cli-Fi Movie: And Your Cat and Dog Will Like it Too!
Watching the movie with my friends and Sammy—who thankfully has never been caught in a flood or even seen a river—I couldn’t help but see the story as a metaphor for the water element out of balance. Disruption of the water cycle is of course a key component of the human-caused climate breakdown that we are already living through...
Ceremony: Rest in Power and Peace, President Jimmy Carter
I was at the Buffalo Dances at Cochiti Pueblo in northern New Mexico when President Jimmy Carter’s spirit left his body and this Earth. And somehow, for me, this was appropriate and poignant timing.
Of Chosen Family and “Childless Cat Ladies”
Maybe we should all claim the honorific “childless cat lady”—whatever your gender, sexual orientation, or age, whether you have cats, dogs, other companion animals, or just love wildlife and the Earth, and whether or not you have raised children and/or grandchildren.
Weather Menders 