Welcome to Emergence Magazine Summer of Practice, a special series of guided audio practices.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this podcast, an executive editor of Emergence magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast

Miwok people in present day, Marin County.

Over the past year at Emergence, we've been exploring the theme of time,

looking at how we can broaden and deepen our understanding of time,

and also stepping away from the linear and into the worlds of geologic time,

ancestral time, sacramental time, and many other forms.

The stories we've been sharing around this plant seeds for us to interrogate and reconceptualize how we perceive time.

But our physical felt experience of time often remains clockbound.

What happens when we are able to inhabit time, even if momentarily

in an entirely new way? What emerges in the absence of the mechanical, the finite, and the

systemized? If time ceased to be a tool of control, could it become a tool of connection?

And how could this shift the way we relate and engage with each other, and the presence of mystery,

and of course with the Earth? Over the summer, we're going to be featuring a series of practices exploring time,

as well as revisiting practices from past issues, offering different ways to bring us into deeper relationship with the living, breathing Earth.

In this first episode, I invite you to step into the first in a series of four guided

practices, exploring different aspects of how remembering Earth time can reawaken an ancestral

memory of living in alignment with the rhythm and pulses within our landscapes,

and make time rooted rather than abstract.

They've been adapted for audio from a most recent print collection of writing prompts and exercises,

a practice in time, enabling you to pop in a pair

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