About

Grief-rituals for a collapsing world, lit with hope and rooted in shared humanity, The Kindling Songs trace an emotional arc from overwhelm to recognition, from descent to regeneration, from separation to collective presence, from collapse to courage. An invitation to tap into our inner strength, to reestablish our bonds with nature, and to heal ourselves individually and collectively. They remind us that in times of crisis and collapse, we collectively hold the power to forge new stories and reclaim our shared future.

The Kindling Songs began as deeply felt, authentic responses to the strange weight of living through disruptive times. They became, through the felt-experience of live performance, a shared cultural practice of letting the world in and moving through, gathering threads of hope, courage and care as we go.

The app was also inspired by the challenges I've faced with information overwhelm as society collectively grapples with the collapse of modernity and the emergence of new paradigms. As we begin the difficult work of shedding the stories that have held us for so long, there's a flood of new ideas, new language, new modalities, frameworks and narratives. The polycrisis, metacrisis, the second renaissance, metamodernism, the great turning, the work that reconnects, polyvagal theory, critical theory, Kingsnorth's machine, Gilchrist's hemispheres, the IDGs… The kindling I offer here is a curated selection of resources and inspirations that have helped me along the way, a filtering of the great wash of resources that floods our devices.

cyndele — "cyndan": to cause to shine, to light up, to set on fire.
cynd — "nature" or "natural."