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Night-Mares and Horsepower: Domestic Partners in the More than Human World
Why should we call our bad dreams nightmares? In The White Goddess, Robert Graves related an ancient story from the British Isles that tells how– after men captured wild mares and kept them in s… more →
Our Earth/Ourselves
Night-Mares and Horsepower: Domestic Partners in the More than Human World
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Madronna Holden wrote 3 weeks ago: Why should we call our bad dreams nightmares? In The White Goddess, Robert Graves related an ancient … more →
Lessons from Yellowjackets: Speaking with the Natural World
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 month ago: Some years back, my then three year old daughter and I were sitting in our front yard when a decided … more →
How to Love a River
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Madronna Holden wrote 7 months ago: Lower Chehalis elder Henry Cultee obtained his own long life from sharing it with the river his peop … more →
Native American Heritage Month: A History to Be Thankful For
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: November is Native American Heritage Month and Congress has designated the Friday after Thanksgiving … more →
Legal Rights for Nature?
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: “We talk about the state sovereignty and the tribal sovereignty, but those ant communities und … more →
The Revolution below Us
Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: I want to tell you How the daffodils are ready To risk the sun, and the crocuses Have opened their m … more →
Is there justice in such a world?
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: “He is confined to solitary twenty-three hours a day in a prison cell that measures 9′X1 … more →
Before the Eyes of the Earth We Are Eternal
Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Before the Eyes of the Earth We Are Eternal Everything that remains Remembers how to love: These two … more →
Advice from the Cemetery
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Make friends with the dead: Hold hands with their wives and children. Sitting on a gravestone, Ask t … more →
Gilgamesh and other pioneers in paradise
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: 11,000 years ago the country where modern Iran is today was a “paradise”, according to t … more →
Badger Medicine
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Badger Medicine Be inevitable. Fight like the sun Fights for the day. Get everything to open its eye … more →
Do Not Worry about the Dry Season
Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Do not worry about the dry season: There is a lake In the center of your hands That contains the ent … more →
Prayer Sticks on Bald Mountain
Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Prayer Sticks on Bald Mountain * This woman who walks through your dreams Lives by the water of a th … more →
"Dead Bodies All the Way Down": Honest Stories to Guide Us
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: “This story will bring you to a place where you can take of yourself” a traditional Cheh … more →
Diplomacy with the Nations of Life
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: The perception of other natural life as nations with distinct ways of life, values, perceptions, rig … more →
The Story Given to Me by Seals
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Ancient stories taught our ancestors to hear the voices of the larger than human world. There are t … more →
The Mice in the Sink-- and Us
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: In “Mice in the Sink”, an essay exploring empathy in non-human animals, Jessica Pierce l … more →
The Descent of Inanna
Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: See here for the text of the play produced by the Eugene Chamber Theater. Here is the summary of the … more →
Poetry
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Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: Here are a few of my published as well as newer poems in the category under “poetry” on … more →
