Author Description

Rashani Réa and Joanna Macy—two extraordinary souls joined in vision, mission, and friendship. With the passage into the Great Mystery of the world’s Eco-Grandmother, Rashani offers us exquisite visual meditations on Joanna’s words to embed them even more deeply into our hearts and our imaginations. What would we do without these generous women whose sharing of their fullness, wisdom, and humanity help us align with the Great Turning? –Sharon Heath, Jungian Analyst and author, "The Fleur Trilogy" and "The Mysterious Composition of Tears" In this stunningly beautiful book/journal, Rashani has given us a landing place to sit and feel and savor, sift through memories, retrieve truth, and open into what unfurls and unravels, in grief, gratitude, and grace, as she illumines Joanna Macy’s words and wisdom afresh with great fidelity, love, and devotion. The pairing of Joanna’s words and Rashani’s images allows us entry into simultaneous magnificence—of life, death, brokenness and wholeness—via color, sound, texture, and context. As the verbal and non-verbal meet, we find ourselves in a garden in which we receive the generosity of both artists. How their energies and intentions lift off the pages and dance around us, move and echo, soar and burrow! We are ever-invited to go within and at once connect—with the great All that is: existence—an inextinguishable flame. Thank you, Rashani for gifting us this book-as-sanctuary, to return to again and again. Thank you, Joanna for giving all you’ve given and will continue to give us all. Thank you both, for this portal into your relationship with one another and for these artful porticos: Each an invitation, enveloping, beckoning us: to embody the Work that Reconnects, to wander these petal-strewn paths, to become infused with your presences and teachings, and to, by example, more fully embody our own. This, of course, is all of growing importance now––a.k.a. The Great Turning is underway––and we current and fut