Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people in present-day, Marine County.

Each week, we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

More and more, I find that we are being asked to meet ecological transformation, with a quality of openness rather than resistance.

It seems it is beyond our powers to restore Earth seasons back to how they once were.

So what if the task is not to hold onto what was, but to cultivate a presence that allows

us to be with the seasons as they transform.

Attentive and willing to be changed ourselves.

Can we step into this liminal space?

In a season of loss, how do we respond?

This week, acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams brings us into the unfolding story of change

in her home place, offering a requiem for what suffers and what endures at Utah's great Salt

Lake. This place nourishes 12 million migrating birds, bison herds, and deeply rooted human communities.

Yet its life-giving waters are rapidly receding.

Contemplating how we might be in service to this dying lake, Terry asks what it means to move not against, but with such immense change, to become a hollow bone

through which things move. As she listens for how the earth is teaching us to be in this time

of ecological change, she seeks a deeper understanding of the lake's presence in the truth

of its absence,

and urges us not to squander the chance to transform ourselves

when the opportunity is upon us. Be a hollow bone, Regina Lopez-White skunk says, as we look out towards Sleeping Newt Mountain on

Newton ancestral lands near her home in Tohawk, Colorado.

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