Aram Mitchell
Posted Private Property
I have a lot of favorite places. Here are some: The little plot of land around my house that is peppered with gardens. The lake across...
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Aram Mitchell
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
Wildness & Spirituality for the Common Good
**I've been drafting the lectures (loosely defined) and gathering resources for my upcoming online course on Wildness & Spirituality for...
Aram Mitchell
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
new gig, long strides
[I wrote this for the newsletter at The BTS Center where I am now working as the Director of Partnerships & Formation. How cool is that?!...
Aram Mitchell
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
thank dog almighty
I believe in fire and flow and muscle and wind. But belief is lonely without practice. My dogs hold me to a practice of elemental...
Aram Mitchell
- Jan 1, 2021
- 2 min
a year ends
The pond near where I sit has ice right to the edges. The ice tips up at the lip of the pond (depending on your stance) like a smile or a...
Aram Mitchell
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
38 things I've learned
I was born on this day in 1982. Here are 38 things I’ve learned since then: In politics and personality assessments it’s seldom...
Aram Mitchell
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
election season
It’s autumn, and has been for who’s-to-say how many weeks. Fall first struck me this year at sixty miles per hour. I was driving the long...
Aram Mitchell
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
solitude, sort of
There’s a place I’ve been going to the past couple of weeks. It’s a short drive on country roads to get there. There is a pond and trees...
Aram Mitchell
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
we're all tangled up
The world feels all tangled up. It feels knotted. Which is different from the world woven together. A woven web of diverse and shimmery...
Aram Mitchell
- Jun 16, 2020
- 3 min
wildness, privilege, and accountability
While walking around the cove last week, I passed a woman and her children sitting near the water on a bank of stones. One child, a boy...
Aram Mitchell
- Jun 4, 2020
- 1 min
we have to breathe to live
I open the window to a wash of scents from the blooms scattered around my neighborhood. After a night of breathing the indoor air of my...
Aram Mitchell
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
update on the hopeful oak
Last spring I noticed a sprig of an oak growing up among the bushes beneath the window box a few feet from my front door. During the fall...
Aram Mitchell
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
the intelligence of seasons
Birdsong and tulips remind me that earth is still spinning, even when I feel stuck. The ebb and flow of tides remind me that bodies are...
Aram Mitchell
- May 2, 2020
- 2 min
seeing the fox seeing me
One morning this week I saw a fox trotting through someone’s backyard. I was out for a run. I don’t think the fox saw me at first. We ran...
Aram Mitchell
- Apr 26, 2020
- 2 min
earthlings
I celebrate the earth. I heed its aches and its groans. I honor its excellence and its glories. And I celebrate us, for being of the...
Aram Mitchell
- Apr 11, 2020
- 2 min
give it a name
It’s mid-April right now. It snowed yesterday in southern Maine. We’re wading chest deep through a global pandemic. And I’m thinking...
Aram Mitchell
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
the sturdy pine
There's this old Hebrew story about a man camped out on the bank of a river, on the brink of a struggle. By most accounts he’s been...
Aram Mitchell
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
what's the mud
Today I feel adrift. I can sense the presence of unmoored grief. So I scan my heart for an anchor of insight, for wisdom that I’ve tried...
Aram Mitchell
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
once the plodding recedes
Most mornings while the coffee is brewing I empty the dishwasher. The reason I like to empty the dishwasher first thing in the morning is...
Aram Mitchell
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
on the trail by the river near the comforting oak
We’re in the midst of one of those events that splits history in half. There was before this. And there will be after this. And right now...