Priscilla Stuckey

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your moment of calm: a mossy waterfall deep in the heart of a Mount Hood trail.

Because owl.

58. How Do We Know What Is True? Yes, everyone has a built-in place where they can see clearly. And getting there takes some practice.

To stand up to fascism, the most important thing we can do, every day, is to plant ourselves firmly in what is true. And yes, we all have the ability to see clearly and know what is true. Though getting there takes a little practice.

In the cool Missoula morning, supporters lined the sidewalk with bright orange marigolds, creating a path of hope leading to the courthouse. As our young plaintiffs walked through this tunnel of solidarity, they carried with them stories that no child should have to tell.

Youth v. Gov:

Here’s a moving update on the young people’s climate case against the govt. They just concluded two days of live testimony to a court in Missoula, MT. With Nobel laureates and scientists backing them up.

Lawsuit brought by Our Children’s Trust.

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Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.

This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.

Unusually beautiful breakers along the Kihei coast today, and surfers were out enjoying them. A minute of the magnificent ocean.
Peace.

Stunning, wasn’t it! We just stood outside with our mouths gaping.

A seagrass seabed with anemone.

Why seabeds matter? 🌊 💙

These vital habitats are full of incredible wildlife and store vast amounts of carbon. Yet they are threatened with destruction by industrial scale fishing in many areas. For #NationalMarineWeek we’ll be sharing how you can help save our seabeds.

Feel better soon! Hope all goes well.

Photograph: Our young brown spaniel, Lottie, communing with an oak friend on the hill behind our house.

"When nature is personal, the world is peopled by rocks, trees, rivers, and mountains...protagonists of their own stories rather than just props in a human story. When Earth is truly alive, the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.”
- @priscillastuckey.bsky.social (Kissed by a Fox)

Update: It passed! Great news, more local long-term housing.

I wanted to watch the tsunami at the reef where we swim. So at the last minute I learned how to capture video on a phone. This is the Ulua beach webcam in South Kihei on Maui. The first wave surge happened later than expected, after dark, so no viewing. But here, for you, is the beach at sunset.

Yum! Be right there. Ofc it’s only the 9 pm club where I am—in HI, where we’re relieved there was no damage. Though it’s not quite all clear yet.

A scorpionfish resting on a thin curved shelf of coral. It has irregular brown and reddish patches on it; there are no cirri over its eyes but it has a fringe of them under its chin, giving it a bearded appearance. #Nature #NaturePhotography #Divesky #UnderwaterPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A scorpionfish resting on coral, Anilao.
Scorpaenopsis sp., maybe S. oxycephalus

#MarineLife 🐟🌿

TG we weren’t quite here yet 😱

Didn’t know you had them up there. The phone alerts are nasty enough. I was trying to take a nap… 😳

Op-Ed: From GMO to STR — Maui’s fight to end the rule of profit over people | Maui Now Op-Ed: Lahaina Strong's De Andre Makakoa Takahashi shares his thoughts on the STR housing crisis and the movement's road from protest to policy.

Coming to a vote 7/23 at the Maui council: a bill to return some short-term rentals to housing for local families. Keep your fingers crossed for us! Great summary here of Maui politics in recent years.

What a more-than-human court could be In an era of ecological collapse, law must evolve to hear the testimony of rivers, whales, and forests — not as metaphors, but as kin.

Imagine boldly!

“What would it mean for law to transcend the Anthropocene and find itself rooted in forests, bees, mountains, and dirt, not as passive objects but as entangled kin that sustain life?”

When Christians Denounced Inequality Before the church adopted the empire's rules

"The land was made to be shared among all, rich and poor alike. But you rich men are trying to reserve it for yourselves!"

From a radical voice today?

No, from a bishop in 385 CE. But only a few years later no one preached this anymore. What happened?

On the corrosive power of inequality.

When Christians Denounced Inequality Before the church adopted the empire's rules

"The land was made to be shared among all, rich and poor alike. But you rich men are trying to reserve it for yourselves!"

From a radical voice today?

No, from a bishop in 385 CE. But only a few years later no one preached this anymore. What happened?

On the corrosive power of inequality.

Hello again, all you wonderful people! If you need a good dose of peacefulness—who doesn't these days?—here is my starter pack of nature appreciators.
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57. Holding Firm to an Open Heart Because resistance begins at home

Touching silence. Touching joy. Touching Earth. I've been getting up for the dawn chorus this year. It's a spiritual practice yes, but also political resistance. Because authoritarians want to control others from the inside out. And saying no begins at home—in the secret places of our own heart.

57. Holding Firm to an Open Heart Because resistance begins at home

Touching silence. Touching joy. Touching Earth. I've been getting up for the dawn chorus this year. It's a spiritual practice yes, but also political resistance. Because authoritarians want to control others from the inside out. And saying no begins at home—in the secret places of our own heart.

Great views! Often SO hard to see, even if you know they’re there.

A tropical bay framed by a tree canopy on the left and a small mountain on the right, glows rose-blue from the bright red and orange clouds slicing the air above it.

Maui sunset report: After a day when the smell of smoke filled the air from a brushfire across the ridge, the wind has died, the birds have bedded down, and even Mr. Northern Cardinal, first to rise and last to sing, has drifted into sleep.

Peace.

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.

Tonga could be the first nation to recognize whales’ legal rights, a move called for by its princess at the UN Ocean Conference.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202...

Go, rock