Hi, and thanks so much for being here with me,
Mary Morgaine Squire, aka Mary Plantwalker,
author of Earth Devotions.
Earth Devotions
This is a creative pallet for sharing loving adorations of life on earth. Don’t ask me exactly what you are going to get from week to week because I can’t draw a straight line, hold a beat, make the same recipe twice or plant anything in a row. I just do what I am led to do in that moment and it definitely aligns with Thoreau’s saying about marching to the beat of a different drummer. I guess you can say I am a channel.
We humans are creators at our core, and we look daily to find ways to channel that creativity. I have never met a child who wants to watch you play with modeling clay. They want to play with it themselves! And we want to form our daily lives with creative freedom no matter what our age, rightfully so.
But with this freedom comes the responsibility of consciousness because everything each one of us is doing and being is what makes our world the way it is. And we are at a critical point in the earth’s story where each of our choices matter BIG. That’s my impetus for writing Earth Devotions— to move beyond just the human arena and merge with The Great Web of Life.
What I can promise you will find by subscribing:
my photography
plant love letters
a down-home earth medicine piece re-connecting us with the great web of life.
links to the inspiring works of others who are plantwalkers, earth tenders and nature advocates in the Weaving Community portion of each newsletter
occasional recipes and ‘how to’ instructions and announcements of my classes
I offer up devotionals in prose, about our kinship with and on earth, in hopes to kindle the spark that is already cradled in your heart, of a loving, grateful, awake life. I give voice to the non-human world and hopefully get you thinking about how to be in service to the great web of creation. I write about our plant allies to get you excited about maintaining, strengthening or beginning your relationship with them. The photographs and charts and collages I share are always mine unless otherwise noted, so I offer up my art.
May this attention to wonder and a devotion to a healthy planet have a domino effect into the larger world. Our steps matter. Every choice an individual makes plays a role in the bigger picture.
About Mary
Writing is a necessary nutrient for me, like eating greens and feeling sun on my skin and drinking wild water, and so as long as I am able, I won’t go without it. I love to write about the trials and triumphs I am discovering by being alive on earth in this time, in this body, in hopes that it may help others find meaning and laughter and inspiration in their lives. The other thing I am deeply nourished by is gardening and stewarding a piece of land. This is how I best learn from the plant nation, by cultivating plants or observing them doing their thing naturally.
I have always always heard voices while immersed in green-ness and find that sharing about it through writing helps me make sense of all the going-ons inside my head and I am repeatedly told it helps others do the same. They don’t feel so alone.
I am totally mercurial— an endless generator of ideas and visions and I need a place to channel this, so documenting things with photographs, charts, collage, altars and the written word really helps. I am simultaneously very pragmatic and consider myself a producer of practical magic. I have kept a daily planner since 1996 with a note about every single day and how it felt, what was the highlight, what was the lowlight, phase of my moon cycle, and what else of significance happened that day. After living over a half century on this planet, I am ready to bring that distillation to the world, through a weekly (ish) dose of Earth Devotions.
Thank you for being here. Bless your life.
In the spirit of the plants,
Mary Plantwalker
