May 1st is May Day—both the ancient Pagan holiday of Beltane that celebrates the burgeoning, flowering life force. This celebration is a precursor to May Day, or International Workers’ Day. As we approach May Day, whose work are we recognizing and honoring? What do we stand for, as ourselves and as a people? Where are you placing your labor? For whom? And in this season of burgeoning life force, what life forces are you tracking and fertilizing?

The vernal equinox represents the effort of rebirth, emerging from the dark of the Dreamtime and raising new shoots from the cold soil. 🌱Plant seeds of “content and discontent” 🌻choose seeds that will remind you as they grow and bloom of all the ways you’ve worked hard to get where you are and what you’ve overcome, and that there is still much work to do to make this a just, equitable, and living planet. 🌎

After months of hibernation and rest, of turning inward during the Dreamtime, life is beginning to stir again. Choose your seeds wisely for the growing season ahead. We are all connected, even from the other side of the world. War will never bring peace. Rewilding means decolonizing.

So-called "developed" nations have the highest rate of loneliness in the world. When we think of rewilding, it's often the romanticized vision of the rugged, capable individual in a pristine forest. However, long-term feelings of loneliness and social isolation can reduce cognitive skills, such as the ability to concentrate, make decisions, and problem-solve. In the face of increasing authoritarianism and populist xenophobia, all we really have is each other in the day-to-day context we’re in.

Rewild Salish Sea: celebrating Winter Solstice, The Dreamtime. Dream of how liberation might come about in your own life, your communities, and the lives of oppressed and colonized people in our world. What are the ways that you can resist? What are how we can thrive? Winter Solstice is a time to gather around the fire as community and repair tools, share stories and songs, and share food. #CeasefireNow

Join Paulé Wood, co-initiator of Rewild Salish Sea, at the 7th Annual North American Rewilding Conference, January 26 - 28, 2024. They will be giving a talk on Rewilding Loneliness: A Crisis of Community and Loss of Shared Spaces,

Hospicing Modernity: join us for a 7-month book club / experiential hybrid practice. This book serves as a foundational resource for people who long to respond to the overlapping crises created by capitalist modernity with more awareness, maturity, and playfulness.

celebrating Samhain, join our conversations on Nov 4 & 9

On the Wheel of the Year, the wax and wane of the seasons are marked by the Solstices and Equinoxes. Modernity tells us that Autumn begins at the Fall Equinox but the solstices and equinoxes are actually the height of the seasons. Previously, we looked at Lughnasadh, the First Harvest, the Harvest of the Sweet. This is the Second Harvest, the harvest of the grain.

Indigenous Peoples Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October. This day has been reclaimed by Indigenous Peoples, who have denounced Columbus Day as a celebration of genocide and colonialism. If you are in the Seattle area, join Rewild Salish Sea to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

In progress: a public map of teachers, schools, trainings, programs, and other resources in the Salish Sea region.

No gods, no masters, only books!! Rewild Salish Sea will be tabling with Real Rent Duwamish at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair at Vera Project N Seattle Center on August 26-27, gathering revolutionary authors, publishers, and workshop leaders all in the same spot.

August 1 Lughnasadh, the first day of Autumn, and the midway point between the Summer Solstice and the Fall Equinox. With roots in Northern European traditions, this celebration recognizes all that has been grown and tended in this turn of the Wheel.