Pagan Re-Enchantment
Pagan Re-Enchantment
My interview on Tree Speech Podcast
A week before I finished my manuscript, I was the guest for a really, really brilliant little podcast series called Tree Speech. As their website explains, it’s
“a blend of narrative storytelling, interviews, and wanderlust at the intersection of the personal, historical and cultural ways that trees impact our lives. Each episode seeks to find new understandings to the tangled relationships we have with the natural world in which we inhabit.
We examine folklore, history, holidays, and current events while exploring trees in our conversations around race, religion, and resources with people who all share deep connections to them-from artists and writers to historians and educators, hikers and arborists to environmental activists and advocates.”
Utterly brilliant idea, yeah?
Anyway, I was quite honored to speak with them, and you can listen to our conversation in quite a few ways.
It was really a fun conversation, and you’ll also probably enjoy many of their other episodes as well, especially if trees and forests matter as much to you as they do to me.
Yes, the Bible is a story of three trees - the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Tree Christ died on which opened the way to the Tree of Life. My own inner perception of the trees I meet with is that they are endless founts of life giving. There is a remnant patch of California Valley Oaks near me, the ones who have reached a certain age and size attain a gravitas, a blend of the matriarchal and patriarchal, tending to one or the other depending on the tree. Yes, trees are splendid, I have known them since small childhood.