"The only stable footstep is a step that makes contact with terra firma," says Kinward listener and biologist and my friend Heidi Schmalz, in this woodsy exploration of “process not product”—of walking off trail in the tangled woods, with wide open eyes and no destination, as Heidi does every day in the summers in the course of her job surveying for rare and sensitive plants.
Heidi proposes the one-step-at-a-time attentiveness that you need to deploy in places like these as a valuable practice for the times we’re in, when it feels increasingly like the trails we’ve been trained to follow are either disappearing or dead-end ruts.
Moonday School is intended to be a slow seminar with you, Kinward’s listeners: a space for skill-sharing and mutual inquiry as we learn together to find our way back to each other. I’m so grateful to Heidi for being among the first to answer the call.
If you have a response, a provocation, a question, or a related inquiry that you would like to contribute to the Moonday School canon, I invite you to send your <20 minute audio file to CdV dot Saizan at gmail dot com. Let’s learn from each other.
