Rewilding Connection from Climate Café

Happy poetry month! Happy spring! We are celebrating one of our most beloved and foundational poets, Mary Oliver. Her work has grounded our way of being in the world, where we strive to integrate her wisdom into projects with Rewilding Connection and Climate Café, in addition to the seemingly mundane parts of everyday life. Today we talk about Oliver's poem "An Invitation" from her 2008 book Red Bird: Poems. You can read along with us below!

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An Invitation
by Mary Oliver
Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine
and not for the sake of winning
but for sheer delight and gratitude –
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,
do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.

Join us for a summer conversation about "place" that was recorded this past August on Shari's deck! As we excitingly meet in person on the salt marsh, we talk about what place means to us. How does place affect our idea of home, our identity, our memories? How has place parented us? How do we continue to grow with our landscapes? For those who have never thought about place before or feel disconnected from nature, we talk about a few practical ways we can return to our connection with place.

Do you want to join our podcast conversations or join the Climate Café community? Email us at climatecafemail@gmail.com or visit our website climate-cafe.org! We would love to chat with you.

What does it feel like to be connected to our purpose? Is it helpful to define it? How can we ritualize purpose?

Welcome to our first episode of Rewilding Connection! Today we dive into what "purpose" means to us, and what it means more broadly in the context of our culture. We also talk about the intentions of this podcast, where we are in our daily lives right now, and what steps we can start to take to connect to our sense of purpose.

Do you want to join our podcast conversations or join the Climate Café community? Email us at climatecafemail@gmail.com or visit our website climate-cafe.org! We would love to chat with you.

Welcome to the podcast Rewilding Connection, with Jaedin Guldenstern and Hannah Grinnell. Today, Jaedin invites us behind the scenes into why we landed on the world "rewilding" for our podcast, and how we kept coming back to central themes of the connection we need today. We seem to consistently turn to science, spirituality, and nature as our greatest teachers of how to rewild.
Our podcast pursues the question, how shall we live? by creating space to listen, ponder, and marvel with each other. In order to have curious and connecting conversations, we need to rewild our relationship to ourselves, our community, and our sense of place. What if we moved beyond debates and arguments, and explored more vulnerable and thoughtful conversations? In a world that feels increasingly divided, rewilding provides us a path to rebuild connection with each other. We are honored to have you join us.
Rewilding Connection is supported by Climate Café which you can find at climate-cafe.org. Hosts are Jaedin Guldenstern and Hannah Grinnell, along with our mentor Shari Melto as our thought leader. The podcast is produced by Jaedin Guldenstern.

Do you want to join our podcast conversations or join the Climate Café community? Email us at climatecafemail@gmail.com or visit our website climate-cafe.org! We would love to chat with you.