What is planting time if not thinking ahead? Maybe the garden teaches us that the “live for now” mantra isn’t all that healthy. Maybe learning to think about what we can’t see matters hugely. Time and time again I look to the garden for wisdom.  It has undone so much propaganda in my brain around … Read more

The planet is sick, and so are we. When we work to heal the planet, we work to heal ourselves. Not just literally, but spiritually.

Dance is your soul insisting on freedom.   I’ve been reflecting on my inferiority complex.  It’s huge.  I believe I was born with it because as far back as I can remember I have been scared of messing up.  Scared to have a voice.  It makes sense that I make dances, a voice few can … Read more

In Motherline’s earliest days we struggled to find words that would help people conceptualize what we are doing, and we gathered our fundamental mission as: dancing together as the origin point to fulfill a vision of Rural ReciProsperity.  That vision sees a thriving and sustainable, planet-protective local economy that supports the reality that Robin Wall … Read more

Dear Motherliners, Apparently there is a term for feeling sad and powerless about the state of our planet: eco-grief.  Grief is a big wide word that tends to encompass all sorts of longings for ‘different.’  So, eco-grief narrows around a longing or a reality that reflects the scientific and emotional understanding that we humans are … Read more