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Brooke
@bkuhnhaus.bsky.social
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possibilitarian, psychologist, climate community weaver, art, music, play, joy, and justice as portals.

Grateful to Indigenous wisdom,
depth and liberation psychologies,
Black feminism and futurism,
living earth, wild psyche and trickster dreaming.
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So incredibly moving hearing Stacey Abrams speak yesterday. She said something so powerful about the many ways we can work on democratic process in this time.

“I can’t know what influence I’ll have so I try to stay curious. Work in teams to solve problems. Do good. And pull every lever I can”.
A close-up photo of Stacey Abrams in a red tunic on stage at the Portland book fest with a microphone being interviewed against a dark blue background.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Feeling today with all the election celebration fueling our ongoing work. Love this piece by Portland artist Lisa Congdon.
A piece of graphic art by Portland based artist Lisa Congdon with highly stylized letters in different colors. The text says: “Build community, lean into joy, fight fascism.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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A beauty pause moment on a walk. Such deep balm for the spirit these days.
A photograph of a painted wooden shed door… The panels are different shades of blue and the little windows have paintings of flowers, including roses, lilies, and bleeding hearts.
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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So incredibly moving and strengthening hearting Timothy Snyder last night “On Freedom”. Such profound wisdom about how true freedom comes from being part of and co-creating an interconnected caring world where we help each other flourish.
A photo of the cover of a book. The title is on blue letters “on freedom” and in red letters, “by Timothy Snyder”.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Love this NW perfection! We had so much great creativity, and joy at ours too, just south of Portland, Oregon!
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Filling up our hearts for No Kings March with a street poetry night about beauty, communal care, and protest by Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani.
A picture of a Poetry program with the words “gentle, Strong, both” written on it in black letters. A white sandwich board sign with the words “something this way” painted on a piece of wood at the top. A photograph of a rust colored wall below a window half open. In front of the wall is a wooden box with a boom box on top of it and tied to the boombox handle are four balloons, yellow, red, orange, and purple.
October 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Luscious roses always make me think of this favorite Mary Oliver:
“when everything has already been more than enough
the wild beds start exploding
day after day
you sit near them
the honey keeps on coming
in the red cups & the bees
like amber drops roll
in the petals: there is no end,
believe me!”
Two coral roses closed up and just beginning to bloom in front of Green manicure hedges. Pinky peach roses in bloom in front of a gnarled tree and an old stone wall.
October 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I’ve just been thinking about the incredibly powerful and tender connection between these two women as well, dear Penny ❤️
A photo of Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall standing side-by-side with Jane’s face affectionately pressed against Greta’s temple.
October 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Watching the incredibly moving livestream celebration of Joanna Macy’s life filled with poetry, music, working through the Spiral that Reconnects, making room for gratitude, pain, love, and generosity.

So powerful to feel even beyond her death, her generative tenderness pouring through..
A close up photo of Joanna Macy’s face… She has twinkling eyes and an open expression.
October 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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All honor and blessing to this vibrant, tender hearted, and determined advocate for our living world, Jane Goodall. May we carry on her spirit and her deep care.

Seeing videos of her holding her beloveds & encouraging young people all the way up to this last year, never fails to evoke emotion.
A picture of Jane Goodall holding binoculars in a green collared shirt. A photo of Jane Goodall in younger years holding a chimpanzee in her arms.
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Those who help us re-enchant our relationship with the world are such vital weavers.

So moved at the serendipity of this beloved creative project Lost Words and Spell Songs by Jackie Morris and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
being on exhibit while I was in town.
A photo of a fence against a grassy background with an advertising poster for an art exhibit “Lost spells: listening to a landscape of voices” with a drawn picture of a snowy white owl by artist Jackie Morris. A picture of the cover of the book “the list words” by Rob MacFarlane and Jackie Morris. The cover is cream with drawn pictures of beautiful birds and dandelion going to seed by artist Jackie Morris. Behind close up of book is a wooden floor, little log stumps to sit on and a blue wall with a glimpse of a painted fox by Jackie.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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One of my favorite luminous images from this week of collective imagination, and collaboration @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social

Led by wonder-weaver @penahay.bsky.social, feeling the interconnectedness between so many dear ones and the more-than-human world, vibrating with life and possibility.
A photograph of a green lush hill partly in sunshine, partly in shade… There’s about six people, walking up the hill in jeans and jackets. There’s a blue sky above the tree line and little white puffy clouds.
September 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The delightful experience of seeing four-year-olds learn all the colors you can make and paint with earth pigments, taught by the marvelous Pippa Pixley @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social.

What a moving experience to see this tactile, playful contact with earth joy, with tiny (& adult!) wonder ones.
A close up photo of a children’s art workbook called “Make Art with Nature” by Pippa Pixley. Next to it is an illustrated pamphlet with images of trees and children and animals dancing for “Forest Imagination: Imagining the Future of the Forgotten Lands” September 23rd -October 2nd. A close up photo of six white bowls with differing crumbled earth elements- clay, mud, chalk in different colors: soft green, ochre yellow, lilac purple, dark brown, rust red, and earthy orange. Three bowls have Paint brushes in them. They are set on butcher paper on a table.
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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The deep poetry and possibility of collaborative creativity
@forestofimaginatn.bsky.social.

Such an antidote and portal through these heavy and uncertain times. "Let the earth dream through us, as us!" —Bill Plotkin
A picture looking up through a constructed outdoor classroom made of wood and canvas in a spiral circle that holds the wood together at the top. This beautiful outdoor classroom was inspired by and made in memory of Charley Brentnall. The photo has the words over it: “I'm at a beautiful gathering in England called Forest of Imagination artists, architects, ecologists, educators, psychologists, and community members we are dreaming, in this time of great trouble, how we can build more deep collaboration with the Earth--and each other --with our creativity and connectedness”
September 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Savoring the rich magic, tender wonder and sense of warm alive connectedness at opening night of @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social🌠

What an absolute joy to be here with the wondrous weaver of hearts and imagination @penahay.bsky.social and so many new collaborators, and kindreds! ❤️‍🔥
A glass jar with a battery-lit candle inside, illuminating a white piece of paper with this poem: Dearest, it was a night That in its darkness rocked Orion's stars; A sighing wind ran faintr Along the willows, and thes boughs Laid their wide hands inste peace across The starry silence of ther antique moss: No sound save rushing air Cold, yet all sweet with Sp And in thy mother's arms couched weeping ther Thou, lovely thing The Birthnight by Walter de la Mare A dark photo of people at night gathering under a tree… Hanging glass jar lanterns with paper Poetry illuminated by battery candles.
September 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The luminous light of September is such a balm.
A close-up photo of a coral orange flower lit up in its petals by the sun with a larger flowering bush behind it
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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From Francis Weller’s new book: “In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty—Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions”

Even the title is a solace of attunement.
A light blue background with blue metallic font with these words: As Francis Weller says, "A soul that is awake is entangled with the living world--its beauty, allure, and wonder, its sorrows, rips, and tears. The condition of our soul matters! So, let us return to simple things: stillness, story, beauty, compassion, and patience."
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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This quote from Gillian Mitchell really moved me today.

She writes a marvelous newsletter this excerpt comes from:

open.substack.com/pub/sparkint...
A quote from Gillian Mitchell: “We are miraculous, and we are utterly insignificant. I cannot save the world. The hubris of ever imagining that I could. Instead, I am a small, beautiful node in the web of life, interconnected in quiet, ordinary ways across time and space. My personal magnificence ripples out in tiny ways, as does yours.”
September 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The power of hearing classical concert piano played right by the ocean was so deep. “In A Landscape” is a beautiful project imagined by pianist Hunter Noack to bring more people together with public lands and the medicine of music. A vision and beauty that I feel so.
A man seated at a grand piano on a platform overlooking the Pacific Ocean with a few rows of audience members with headphones looking at him.
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Morning balm for this time of great loss and trouble. Weaving between beauty and grief, contemplation and action often these days.
A bright orange lily with green striped leaves underneath it in the foreground of a garden.
August 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Ahh yes, so rich that in interconnection, it’s all one circle… Made me think of this favorite quote by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social.
“Look at the anatomy of trees as one of nature's examples of successful organizing that realizes that our power is in our ability to both be fiercely centered and grounded but also infinitely reaching towards our unique sources of energy, light, and growth. Each tree's elements are reliant on one another but totally unique in form and function. There is no competition or pressure to be the root or the trunk or the buds that bloom. Each tree is a universe, a master delegator, a puzzle and a puzzle piece. They have encouraged me to focus on how to create systems and support efforts where everyone is important and clear on how their work is unique, crucial and totally interconnected.” - adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
August 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Worked with community today on a cob cottage. In the midst of so much heartache and uncertainty, working with others, working with my hands, close to the forest felt both orienting and heartening.
A close-up photo of the roof line of a cob structure with an artistic addition of a sunburst and bottle-ends to let light in, mostly in blue and green tones. There are some leafy green trees visible above the roof.
August 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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“Come with me
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks…
so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky
sugars of the sun…

Come
and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.”
Mary Oliver
A photo of a sunflower field with lots of small and medium sunflower faces and behind silhouette of trees. The sky is a warm blue with no clouds. There’s a small sunburst in the corner of the photo.
August 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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“Poems of tenderness and belonging”... balm for all the heartache.

A stunning anthology of LGBTQ+ and friends’ poetry curated by the wonderful writers and dear couple James Crews and Brad Peacock.

It was so moving to hear them read when they came to Portland @powells.bsky.social this spring.
A close-up photo of a bookshelf with one book turned forward, featured, called "Love is for all of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging" by James Crews and Brad Pearson. The cover is orange with playful graphic rainbow lettering by artist Lisa Congdon. The spines of two books by James Crews are also visible: A blue book "the Path of Kindness" and and orange book "The Wonder of Small Things". There's also the spine of a yellow book by Matthew Dickman called "Husbands".
August 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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These incredibly potent words from the luminous Andrea Gibson. “Paint with color… show them what you’re FOR”.

Feeling deeply too with their birthday being yesterday, how their life *and* death has been birthing us into Great presence.
A picture of Andrea Gibson, a non-binary poet standing on a tree on the edge of a lake. they are wearing a white cotton sleeveless shirt and rolled up pants. The sky is blue with white puffy clouds. There’s a ridge of foothills around the lake. Super- imposed over the photo is their words: “Build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards. Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for.” - Andrea Gibson
August 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM