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Before the relationship begins, is the opening. Pour honey on a peach and lick it clean. This is the aliveness - the juice - we can cultivate in the living world.
Before the relationship begins, is the opening. Pour honey on a peach and lick it clean. This is the aliveness - the juice - we can cultivate in the living world.
Books, Journalism and Subtack
Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees will be published by Hachette in 2026!
Heartwood weaves my personal narrative facing chronic illness with the science and spirituality of environmental psychology to invite deeper belonging to the living world. Erotic and embodied ecology pair with raw and vulnerable storytelling in an eco-lyrical exploration of the miracle of trees.
The book explores, through story and science, how experiential, sensory encounters with the Earth can transform our understanding of place, language, belonging and healing, rooted in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado. Heartwood is co-authored with the forest. Trees are interconnection, embodied, and by apprenticing them, we can learn how to foster and sustain collective liberation.
Each chapter has a "tree" and "body” practice rooted in mindfulness and Budhhist philosophy to directly experience kinship with trees, and to be loved in turn.
Readers will find their own center of gravity in a world in free fall and become re-enchanted to vitally participate in the vast web of simmering, pulsing, breathing life that is in us and all around us.
Currently represented by Folio Management.
© Lindsay Branham
Columnist, The Aspen Times, the oldest news source in Pitkin County, Colorado, writing about local place-based environmental topics. See more here.
Heartwood Notes, subscribe for free to Lindsay’s Substack, Heartwood Notes, explorations on healing through nature, environmental psychology, contemplative spirituality and science.
Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees will be published by Hachette in 2026!
Heartwood weaves my personal narrative facing chronic illness with the science and spirituality of environmental psychology to invite deeper belonging to the living world. Erotic and embodied ecology pair with raw and vulnerable storytelling in an eco-lyrical exploration of the miracle of trees.
The book explores, through story and science, how experiential, sensory encounters with the Earth can transform our understanding of place, language, belonging and healing, rooted in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado. Heartwood is co-authored with the forest. Trees are interconnection, embodied, and by apprenticing them, we can learn how to foster and sustain collective liberation.
Each chapter has a "tree" and "body” practice rooted in mindfulness and Budhhist philosophy to directly experience kinship with trees, and to be loved in turn.
Readers will find their own center of gravity in a world in free fall and become re-enchanted to vitally participate in the vast web of simmering, pulsing, breathing life that is in us and all around us.
Currently represented by Folio Management.
© Lindsay Branham
Columnist, The Aspen Times, the oldest news source in Pitkin County, Colorado, writing about local place-based environmental topics. See more here.
Heartwood Notes, subscribe for free to Lindsay’s Substack, Heartwood Notes, explorations on healing through nature, environmental psychology, contemplative spirituality and science.
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