Pine, Honey, Silver and Sap

Gone. That's a sure sign that something happened, out there beyond the reach of the busy mind. Gone. It's good practice for The Big One. Two nights ago, the coldest of the year by far, we ignored Boss' barking - the last time we do that - and stayed warm inside. An hour later, satisfied and ready...

Sanity & Soul, Die Wise: Ten Years On

Sanity and Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On High Stepping In the place I was born to, habit drove the engine of almost everything. The metronomic plodding of the inevitable calendar-driven days: that was the cadence. Working for the weekend. High-fiving the ghosts. Making do in the suburbs. Getting used to everything was more valued than...

Only the Living Die

Only the Living Die: A Year of Reckoning Live in Joshua Tree: March 7 & 8 For most village people, for many centuries or most, the desert was a place you went to for extremes, when your life was calling out for some kind of edge by which to find its centre. The desert was a place of drastic clarity, where...

He’s not done yet … 2025

Nathalie's dream is coming true. We're creating a Scriptorium around Stephen Jenkinson’s collected work. The Boreal Sessions will be in-person scriptorium labour. We are hard at it, creating an online Library and Colloquium and, in good time, we may be able to offer a collection of hand-crafted books based on decades of Stephen's talks, including Orphan Wisdom...

WINTER ATTENTION

Paying attention: there’s a reason we use the word pay. It’s hard to have a sort of chronic attention span. It asks a lot. But being asked much of helps. Your feeding the place you call home, and your recompense, may be a consequence of your being asked a lot of. Stephen Jenkinson speaking about...

A PUBLIC LIFE. A LIFE’S WORK.

A public life. A life's work. Two things that sound official, intentional, inevitable. Both have come my way, and neither have that sound to them, not to my ear. * It is a joy to be surprised by one's little life, to be taken aback. I am joyful that way. It is a relief to be the worker and not...

WINTER HOUSE KEEPING

December 19, 2024 Dearest greetings to you, These cold, clear, dark days have inspired a bit of Winter house keeping. Many of you will have received a newsletter, sent out back in April of this year introducing me, Khadija as a new member of the Orphan Wisdom team. The correspondence and the conversations with you all have been...

BURGUNDY

December 4th, 2024 Matrimony is a rumour sometimes, and a mystery the rest of the time. No one commands the thing. I was in the matrimony trade longer than I was in the death trade, and the crazy days were comparable. A few years ago I got it in mind to see if I could give...

HOW IT ALL COULD BE

November 26th, 2024 Inescapable truths have always struck me less like executioners and more like angels. Wrestle your executioner if you will, but the best outcome you should expect will be a subtle shift in his estimation of you while he delivers on the irreducible result of why he is there. It can only be...

NOT IMPOSSIBLE

November 1 - big farm doings, if you're a sheep. After a pent up 11+ months of his own company, the ram is with the ewes. He showed no indecision. Instincts - not habits, instincts - are miraculous. They know their work. Grace following, five months from now we'll be up all night with...

IN THE WAKE OF THE FIRST NEVER LAND / SEVER LAND SESSIONS

"From the ground up, that's a good description of civilization. From the ground in, that's culture. Civilization and culture head in different directions." Stephen Jenkinson We have now completed the firs two sessions of Never Land / Sever Land with Stephen Jenkinson & Kimberly Ann Johnson. On our end we gathered with Stephen in the Great Hall while...

Cultural Identity, Ancestry, & White Privileges and Poverties with Tad Hargrave & Kimberly Ann Johnson

The two discuss the polarities of self-loathing and self-glorification amidst contemporary white activists of both the left and right, and the broader implications of whiteness and cultural identity for white individuals.

Interview: Jackson Kroopf interviews Stephen Jenkinson & Kimberly Ann Johnson

In this episode, podcast producer Jackson Kroopf interviews Kimberly Ann Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson about their upcoming live audio series Never Land / Sever Land – Dirt, Place, Ancestry, and The Making of Culture From The New World

NEVER LAND / SEVER LAND

We are so pleased to announce Never Land/Sever Land - a live audio series between Kimberly Ann Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson engaging his new work NeverLand: Agriculture, Culture and the Striving for Belonging. We wanted to make sure you hear about this first from us. There is a $100 savings when you sign up before October 7th. These...

PRAYER – A REFLECTION

Prayer seems to me to be bound up with purpose. Whether the purpose is known or not, prayer seems to be, for the most part, a driven thing, and a driver, too. -Stephen Jenkinson This past Summer, Stephen Jenkinson and Dr. Martin Shaw met in Devon at St. Mary's Chapel in Totnes for the first time...

FORGOTTEN PILLARS SERIES NOW ON SALE

Early in 2023 Stephen and Kimberly Ann Johnson came together for a 5 Part Series on Patrimony, Matrimony, Kinship, Ancestors & Ceremony. These sessions were raw, real, raucous revealing, and an act of remembering. We want to let you know the series is on sale now through August 22nd. Access the Forgotten Pillars Series Here The...

MANAGING / BLESSING

When someone tells you news that he/she has told five hundred before you, it comes across as barely news. It's rote, and it's your turn, and that's it. Part of the disease-brief protocol I was told: "There'll be good days, and bad days." Which has turned out to be rigorously, unspectacularly, allopathically true. Today - for...

VERITAS

Alma mater they called it in more innocent but no less culpable times. An awful lot to lay on a stint in school. I brought a untutored brew of vocation and a love of the spoken word to Harvard Divinity School some 45 years ago. I had plans. Harvard had ways. They let me in, gave me the...

Pine, Honey, Silver and Sap

Sanity & Soul, Die Wise: Ten Years On

Only the Living Die

He’s not done yet … 2025

WINTER ATTENTION

A PUBLIC LIFE. A LIFE’S WORK.

WINTER HOUSE KEEPING

NOT IMPOSSIBLE

IN THE WAKE OF THE FIRST NEVER LAND / SEVER LAND SESSIONS

Cultural Identity, Ancestry, & White Privileges and Poverties with Tad Hargrave & Kimberly Ann Johnson

Interview: Jackson Kroopf interviews Stephen Jenkinson & Kimberly Ann Johnson

NEVER LAND / SEVER LAND

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