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Devotions
There are ways through this. Not one but many. All bound to fail. And yet and yet. In the complex Gordian knot of the Anthropocene Our tugs all matter. What is good for the land is good. We will find Read more…
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A guide to growing up in January 2023.
https://youtu.be/1rTjNHaYJkw Lucille Greeff and Carine Roth from Rite de Passage hosted author Darcy Ottey for a global conversation about the new book Rites and Responsibilities: A guide to growing up in January 2023. RITE DE PASSAGE, a swiss association for Read more…
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Growing up
Growing (up) We are threshold beings, initiates of life walking through fires and valleys, crossing rivers and mountains, traversing wilderness and wasteland. Take my hand. Let me offer you a blanket, some food, an ear, a circle, a prayer, a Read more…
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Mountain Lament
And on the fourth day the heavens will open and the skies will weep a deep grief falling onto the land. Oh, what are we doing? What are we losing? Who will remember? Where is the holy land? And Read more…
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Supermoon – 13/07/22
Supermoon Life is short, short and painful and beautiful. I lie in the hottub after midnight, the wind singing in the trees. Alarms sounding in the distance. An almost full moon shimmers silver, the clouds float past at speed, the Read more…
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Tatjana Zaayman – Wilderness
The melody and words of this song were received on a solo fast revisit spent out in the West of the Vision quest area, the direction of the ancestors. High up on a rock ledge I was looking down into Read more…
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A Call To Quest
Vision Quest Thank you so much for your interest in our Vision Quests. We have decided that it will be safe enough to go ahead with our next Vision Quest. It takes places from 18-28 November 2021. The pre- Read more…
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Re-wilding ourselves for resilience: Wilderness work and mental health
Today is World Mental Health day. This gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on our own mental wellbeing and what we need. This reflexivity is so necessary in 2020, a year that has challenged us emotionally, socially, economically Read more…
Podcast
Lucille’s Vision Fast Story
Lucille Greeff tells her amazing Vision fast story to friends, family and viewers. Join her on a journey of a life time as she tells her story of adventure in our beautiful mountains of Cape town. The Vision Fast is a Read more…
Poem
Weaving some threads
She dives into a pool brings back the red stone of the west it is a smaller version of the red earth egg that finds and returns with me. He is followed by the woodpecker I am followed by Read more…