Roots | The Kindling Songs

📜Read the Lyrics

Singing Key

LEFT RIGHT ALL

Life is moving me around in circles
And I'm trying to nest my mind in yours
Like the birds following light - Invisible lines - Pole to pole skies
Listening to life

I feel through the roots
To the beating of our hearts
I feel through the roots
To what we all are

Like the wolf roaming
Or the raven, older than the night
The why of the wind
The wonder of water - giving life

I feel through the roots
To the beating of our hearts
I feel through the roots
To what we are

Life is moving me around in circles
And I'm trying to nest my mind in yours
Like the woods building from light
Making their way slowly through life
Fashioning water into mind

I feel through the roots
To the life that's beating in our hearts
I feel through the roots
To what we all really are

Sit With This

What does love for another human actually feel like? Does it reach to something beyond the affection you share?
Does the world look or sound or feel different when your body is filling up with love?
Is it possible to feel these feelings without the attachment to another person?
If love is there inside you, can you feel it now?
What would it mean to organise society around care instead of extraction?

🙏 Notice / Savour / Gratitude Practice ▾

A practice from the Work That Reconnects · Joanna Macy, Active Hope

A structured practice to notice, savour and give thanks — grounded in something specific rather than gratitude in the abstract.

How it works

Notice — scan your recent memories and identify something that makes you think "I'm glad that happened."
Savour — close your eyes and imagine yourself back into that moment. Notice colour, texture, taste, sound, smell, sensation in your body. Notice how you feel.
Give thanks — who or what helped this moment happen? How can you give thanks, or offer something back?

Facilitation note: can be done solo in a few minutes, or shared aloud in pairs afterwards. Works well as a daily practice too, not just in the moment.

🌍 Overview — an optional film ▾

Overview is a 20-minute film that explores the phenomenon of the same name through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced it. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment. It illustrates the effect of seeing Earth from space — as one organism pulsating in space with no boundaries or borders, all things connected.

The Deeper Dive

In the flush of new love my partner and I bonded over our felt connection with the wilds within each other. We went for walks, slept on cliffs, sought out the highlands and the islands and a question emerged: what would a relationship look like if we thought of ourselves less like two people and more like mycelial upshoots from the humus.