You Are the Earth with Poet Jacqueline Suskin [episode 102]

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Poet and educator Jacqueline Suskin shares about watching the ways humans choose to nurture their connection with the land and its cycles.

You’ll also hear about:

• How creative expression is the practice of life

• Moving through the immensity of eco grief to use it as creative fuel

• How loving the earth is loving ourselves

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Jacqueline Suskin is a self-proclaimed ecstatic earth worshiper, the author of eight published books, all of which center around the earth and its bounty. Currently, she’s focused on bringing her nature poetry curriculum into classrooms around the country and her next book “A Year in Practice – Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression” is available at all major booksellers.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Rewriting beliefs around urban spaces lacking connection with nature

• Finding the right level of human connection to help uncared for land flourish

• How the conversation around land stewardship is more complicated than just planting a bunch of trees

• Honoring decay

• How we don’t have to reinvent the wheel

• The younger generation having so much to say (about the earth)

• How allowing people the time and space to dream and explore will allow them to connect with the earth

• Going beyond duality to allow both hope and hopelessness to exist simultaneously

• How we can’t have awe without attunement to despair and grief

• How we have the power to change everything in this moment

• How cultivating trust in the now can help us soothe our despair and expand our trust in the future

• Jacqueline’s new book A Year in Practice

• Remembering the cycles that are already in us to align with the rhythms that exist in the world

• The difficulty of transitions

• The grief of loosing the familiarity of the way we know the seasons

• The connection between imagination and intuition

• How supporting the community is a pathway to combat our isolation

• How practicing relationship involves showing up for it no matter who or what we are in relationship with

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Guest Links:

• Learn more about Jacqueline’s offerings at www.jacquelinesuskin.com

• Connect with Jacqueline on Instagram @jsuskin

• Connect with Jacqueline on Substack https://substack.com/@jsuskin

• Check out Jacqueline’s book A Year in Practice

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/

• A brief history of Detroit

• Poem Forest Australia

• Folk Life Farm

• Inside Out Literary Arts Detroit

• Poem Store

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

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