What Does it Mean, to Heal? III
Issue #8, April 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lise Weil, Gillian Goslinga, Nancy Windheart, Jacqueline Freeman, Anne Bergeron, Ann Drake, Britta Love, Andrea Mathieson, Kristin Flyntz
Editorial
Gillian Marie Goslinga
Love as Fierce as Death: A Tribute to Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018)
Nancy Windheart
Life is Love: The St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga Whales
Jacqueline Freeman
Prey–er
Anne Bergeron
How I Came to Be With Water
Ann Drake
The Universe is Vibrational: Teachings from the Rainforest of Borneo
Britta Love
Heal/Weave: Learning from Plant Medicine and Altered States
Andrea Mathieson
Snake Medicine: Remembering the Eros of my Animal Body
Jen Skunk
This Moment
AFTERMATH: 11/9
Dreams, Nightmares, Visions
Kristin Flyntz
Orangutan Mercy
Rebekah Parr
“Touch Me or You’ll Die”
Jen Skunk
This Moment
The bliss of this moment rubs against my legs like the
lap cats of angels. Do you also feel this divine?
It is the sweet forest ecstasy:
I raise my arms to the sky and can feel myself fly right
up into the stars—I am astonished by the shape of
each cloud.
This is what I find sacred: when the raindrop hits my cheek and I sense
the power of a thousand ancestors dripping towards me—
when I feel my descendants drinking deep from the lasting trickle of my legacy.
This is what I find sacred: when I experience for a moment the
great depth that is sensation—when I feel it moving in pulsation, in
vibration.
This is the purpose. This is the journey. This is everything.
I wallow in it, like a cat drenched in dust and sun.
Working Notes:
My work is an attempt to put words to the unexplainable. There are certain things that are purely felt—experienced in the body. Trauma/destruction and healing/rebirth are examples. My work is an exploration of what it is like to live on the brink of civilization, and the cusp of collapse.
Jen Skunk is a white queer woman living in Eugene, Oregon. She is a health witch, writer, artist and educator. Her fine art prints and drawings can be found at IG jenskunk.
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