Hello everyone. If we haven’t met yet, my name is Jordan Leden. I have been invited to participate in the spirit of the land class as a community member, and last nights nature walk was a brilliant and beautiful experience. I was part of a discussion the other night surrounding some of the questions asked in the class. What is the connection between spirit and land? When asked this, I put myself in a scenario where a section of unbroken prairie by the farm where I grew up, would be turned into farm land. As I imagined this situation, I felt heart break. The natural systems associated with ones upbringing, and home, draws a strong connectedness to the fullness of who we are as individuals. I am a prairie person. I feel such profound and magnificent peace, just by being in the wild prairie. The healing power that the land has on us, truly, is overwhelmingly beautiful. Thank you all for this experience. I look forward to the future of the spirit of the land class.
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Hi Jordan. I’m a community member too.
Your post makes me think of the lyrics of this beautiful song by Kurt Elling (an amazing jazz vocalist in my humble opinion).
“Watching lightening over wheat fields
Through a bedroom window
And the prairie gently rose up and embraced us
With her feeling.”
that is indeed what the land does in my experience. It loves us fully, totally, completely and unconditionally at all times….giving giving giving….not just her awesome, diverse and complex beauty but her love. The land gently rises up and embraces us in every moment, whether we know it or not……she is there loving us. Sometimes we are lucky enough to sit quietly and be with that love and it rings out in our hearts and bodies and minds. What a love, it brings tears to my eyes writing these words. How can we live with such gushing, bountiful, powerful, tender, gracious, infinitely beautiful love? How can we live without it.
http://www.songlyrics.com/kurt-elling/leaving-againin-the-wee-small-hours-lyrics/
Thanks for the beautiful post and the great song, Awden!