A Litany of Wild Graces

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Astonishing! I have never beheld anything like this collection of songs to the wild earth to its unbounded elegance and heart-wrenching vulnerability to its singular ability to penetrate our carefully shielded minds and deliver us directly into the arms of a love that lives in every cell of our bodies... I thirst for the elixir Sharifa offers. I want everyone I know to drink deeply and be transfigured by the sacred wonderment shining from every nexus of these beautifully written poems.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mirabai Starr <em>Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A Litany of Wild Graces </em>is a call to experience a sensuous encounter with the living Universe. Poems essays and litanies are imbued with hymns to botany biology geography cosmology and all life inviting us to engage deeply to create pathways of loving and honoring our sacred earth.<em></em></strong><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </em><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Felicia Kainat Norton  An Emerald Earth</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>We stand at a pivotal moment as the environmental crisis deepens. Scientists environmental organizations island nations and the children of our world are calling for a vast encompassing paradigm shift. We search everywhere seeking what can be done to turn the tide. Yet into this chorus a new melody is arising asking not only what must we do but <em>who must we become</em> to meet this urgent need.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>In <em>A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology</em> Sharifa Oppenheimer points us toward an open secret. Through poetry essay litany and dreams she invites us to step out of a 21st century virtual reality and into the emerald earth. Here we rediscover <em>our ancient neural core: kinship with all beings</em>. In these pages we meet close relatives: woman-in-the-mountain northern blue ice our sun ~ the father of all incandescence. We inhale the very breath exhaled by arctic phytoplankton. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>It is through kinship ~ through Love alone ~ that we will be brought back to our senses back home to the sensually alive inter-being that composes the living body of Gaia. It is singularly here at home in the one heart of earth that we will shuck off our husk of greed and domination. Here we can regain our humanity. We can rejoin the great conversation among beings. Step outside open these pages and remember.</p>