Marilyn DuHamel

Marilyn DuHamel has a lifelong commitment to the natural world, which is currently expressed through her website/blog, Earth Dialogues, at www.marilynduhamel.com. Her essays foster a deeper connection to animals, plants and landscapes, believing that what
we love, we will not turn away from. Her writing has been published in Dark Matter: Women Witnessing. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she has been in deep dialogue with therapy clients for the last three decades. Prior to that, she worked as a forester on
survey crews and spotting fires from remote lookout towers. She lives at the edge of the wild in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, tracking the movements of foxes, coyotes and mountain lions.

Marilyn DuHamel in Kosmos

Chama River Revelations

What I love in the world is asking something of me—not only to reflect its beauty, but also to express its vulnerability, its potential demise. I notice fewer songbirds returning to my water fountain each season. I am observing an absence. How do I articulate the hole in the picture, the silenced voice?

Published in Volume 19 Issue 1

Good Fortune

Three miles and four hours later we creep back to the starting point, our eyes exhausted, necks stiff, but our curiosity only whetted. Savoring this feast as we drive home, I’m reminded of Thoreau’s words: Wealth in-doors may be the inheritance of few, but it is equally distributed on the Common. Today I am a rich woman.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,