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.

What connects time and place?

Through the concept of space-time, we can come to understand how

the movement of time is fused with physical space into a continuum. There's a union between

the two. But what are the nuances of this relationship, in which time imprints place with meaning,

and vice versa? On this week's podcast, we're sharing the second talk in a series I gave at our

remembering earth time retreat earlier this year in Devon, England.

Picking up the thread I laid out in the previous talk on working with a love that runs

through time, I speak about how the intimate relationship between time and place,

expressed with the cycles ever present in our landscapes, can help us form ties of kinship with the earth.

It's my belief that we each hold ancestral memories of what it means to be in relationship

of the rhythms of a place, and that these memories, deep within us, can be awoken.

When time becomes rooted rather than abstract, when it becomes an experience of kinship with

the land, we can once again find ourselves a participant in the mystery and magic of creation.

This morning I want to speak about the intimacy

required of engaging with the essential nature of time and the relationship between time and place and also the other spaces of time that can open to us through

interacting within these realms and relationships of time.

And on Thursday I spoke about the essential nature of time

and what is at the core of that essential nature of time,

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