The Real Work

The Playa at Sunrise

This quote has been living with me on my desk much of this year. I keep finding new meaning in the same quote and new inspiration in the same words.

"The real work is becoming native in your heart, coming to understand we really live here, that this is really the continent we're on, and that out loyalties are here, to these mountains and rivers, to these plant zones, to these creatures. The real work involves a loyalty that goes back... billions of years. The real works is accepting citizenship in the earth itself."

~ Gary Snyder

My open inquiry is what it means to become native in my own heart... what it means to accept citizenship in the earth itself.

In wild wonder,

Steven