Global Earth Exchange, Salt Lake City Report:

Kinde Nebeker and Stacy Peterson gathered at a corridor just south of Salt Lake City that is under development. It had been a long stretch of beautiful open space, at the foot of Timpanogos, a distinctive mountain part of the Wasatch Range, and is now slowly being eaten away by housing development and malls.

We created sacred space, spoke our feelings of being on this land, and then each walked on the land for about 50 minutes. When we returned and told each other what we’d experienced in that 50 minutes, a remarkable overlap of our stories became evident. Rest, fatigue, and letting go were a strong theme. We felt the tiredness of this land, which had revealed itself to be not pristine open space as it appears from the highway, but dug up and changed many times since white men had settled the valley.

We created a funky bird and did movement together to honor this place and what we’d experienced. Stacy felt a renewed commitment to ‘being the change’ she wants to see in the world, and to dedicate herself to supporting others to do the same from a deeply centered place. Kinde felt the grief and freedom of letting go to even the most precious things. We both felt great gratitude for each other and our friendship and working partnership in eco-healing work . . . recalling that we had first met each other on the winter solstice many years ago.