by Kim Ort | May 11, 2019 | Contemplation, Place, Topics, Workshops
I live on the land of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Niagara Purchase Treaty 381 in 1781. This month in the PLACE workshop, we’re exploring the indigenous story of our place’s earliest peoples. These are the people who first inhabited our land. In this...
by Kim Ort | Apr 26, 2019 | Contemplation, Inspiration, Place, Workshops
In my last post, I shared the deep-time story of my place, Niagara. The name, Niagara, comes from the original inhabitants of this land, the Neutral Nations, who in their language named it, “Onguiaahra,” which means, “the strait” or “thundering water.” While this area...
by Kim Ort | Mar 19, 2019 | Books, Contemplation, Habits, Inspiration, People
* All photos in this post are from Arizona ”In this convulsive age of uprooted populations and extensive diasporas, holding onto places – and sensing fully the goodness contained therein – has become increasingly difficult, and in years to come, I expect,...
