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.

In early summer, we released Time, our fifth print edition, which holds stories of deep

time, geologic time, ancestral time, kinship time, which holds stories of deep time, geologic time,

ancestral time, kinship time, and is full of original works by the likes of Tyson-Young-Coporta,

James Bridle, Jane Hirschfield, David Hinton, Linda Hogan, and many more.

This week, we're beginning to share some of these stories online.

So if you haven't yet had a chance to pick up the print edition, you can begin to explore

its essays and poetry digitally and as audio stories, as they published them week to week.

In tandem with this, I'll be sharing a series of talks on the podcast over the next three weeks

that bring together many of the themes we explore in the print edition.

I gave these talks at an emergence retreat held in April in Devon, England,

where we gathered to explore what it means to step away from time as linear and mechanized,

and into an experience of time as part of the essential

fabric of creation. The talk on today's episode offers a framework through which we can

reattune our sense of time to be in relationship with the cycles of the earth, from the deep

time movement of mountains to the fleeting bloom and decay of a cherry blossom.

We have stripped time down into a singular expression, the tick of the clock, and have

ultimately forgotten the axis of love that runs through it and makes it alive.

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