Deeptime Network | Betsey Crawford | Activity https://dtnetwork.org/our-members/luckybet/activity/ Activity feed for Betsey Crawford. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:26:25 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 24a4b2d5f525ae635d4addb969fbfb84 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Beautiful, wild, intelligent: loving iris https://dtnetwork.org/?p=286743 Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:48:57 -0400 Beautiful, wild, intelligent: loving iris
Blog Post by Betsey Crawford
I’m indiscriminate in my love for flowers. There are few that I don’t like, and many that I love. But there is something about my fee […]

]]> 1 52fdaacb481f7c9d2379f604ca8f9527 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Brian Swimme's Powers of the Universe https://dtnetwork.org/?p=274993 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:42:15 -0500 Brian Swimme's Powers of the Universe Over the past few years, I have been exploring Brian Swimme’s 11 Powers of the Universe, the energies he sees governing the endless creation of the […]

]]> 0 9ea8468bdf0bfee65d37e465a0e86931 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Boundless possibility: the power of seamlessness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=268467 Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:08:20 -0500 Boundless possibility: the power of seamlessness Our universe’s constant bubbling of form and new realities is what cosmologist Brian Swimme calls seamlessness, one of his eleven powers of the universe […]

]]> 0 dda26c6ff86bdbb48b61b06f62616436 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Standing on Holy Ground: Thomas Berry's Primary Revelation https://dtnetwork.org/?p=266717 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:50:40 -0500 Ever since I was introduced to Thomas Berry’s work in 2000, his thinking has informed and enriched my own beyond measure. For this essay, I chose one of my favorite of his ideas: that we expand our vision beyond […]

]]> 0 d8588fbb92d10ed00977526e84ace220 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, A wild love for the world https://dtnetwork.org/?p=263304 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 19:45:18 -0400 My youngest nephew is standing at the gates of adulthood appalled by what he finds beyond them. He has a lot of company, of all ages. But I feel particular sympathy for the youngest and tenderest among us. It is […]

]]> 0 37223b03a25957426a80d9dfebbd71ce Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Metamorphosis: the power of transformation https://dtnetwork.org/?p=260866 Sun, 15 May 2022 23:42:06 -0400 I have been exploring cosmologist Brian Swimme’s eleven powers of the universe to see what our oldest teacher tells us about creating a just and sustainable planet. These are the energies by which the cosmos i […]

]]> 0 0abe984dd02690a8eff3ece3da33f507 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The drama of deep time: Joggins Fossil Cliffs https://dtnetwork.org/?p=259628 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:41:18 -0500 A UNESCO World Heritage site, Joggins Fossil Cliffs is famous for fossils that bridge the time when our ancestors were moving out of the seas and onto land.
And what a land! Vast forests of the ancestors of ferns […]

]]> 0 388582a4a4f145d14e309208b5b9b39d Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Tending the Wild https://dtnetwork.org/?p=259383 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:50:04 -0500 The most creative people on the planet today are working on changing the stories we have told ourselves for the last several centuries. In some cases, the last few millennia. Some of the stories we are turning […]

]]> 0 e6235e0be4ddd6f1a6c646fef28aeb77 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address https://dtnetwork.org/?p=257917 Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:26:50 -0500 When we did a round-robin reading of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address at the end of our pre-Thanksgiving class, I was moved to combine it with my photos. The Address expresses gratitude for the oldest and […]

]]> 0 410145a6f5a206cef73f5543b8b7448b Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Plant Blindness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=257752 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:13:52 -0500 The inability to register plants in one’s environment or to see the importance of the plant world are two of the symptoms of plant blindness. One study found that Americans can identify over 1,000 corporate logos […]

]]> 0 748f9732f3c779027b8ef0a6f5a0d3c1 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Native Language https://dtnetwork.org/?p=255298 Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:26:11 -0400 When a human language dies, says linguist David Crystal, “what is primarily lost is the expression of a unique vision of what it means to be human.”
When a plant language dies, the same happens. Gone are r […]

]]> 0 393b60401a84d6a700bfc3f502507cf5 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Rain https://dtnetwork.org/?p=252509 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:13:27 -0400 When my partner George died in October one of the things I dreaded was the coming rainy season. No more beautiful blue and yellow days, long twilit evenings, silken roses in overflowing gardens. I feared I had […]

]]> 0 ecc981d195f292b46d7bc0d29082cec4 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The power of allurement, the mystery of beauty https://dtnetwork.org/?p=250984 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:17:45 -0500 In this essay I ponder one of nature’s most intriguing mysteries: why is so much so beautiful? Why all those luscious colors, gossamer wings, silken petals? Why rustling waves of grasslands, filled with flowers, c […]

]]> 0 d5126bc73bbb78cf09caa7349ad12207 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Weathering the storm: living with the power of cataclysm https://dtnetwork.org/?p=250656 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:18:14 -0500 We owe our existence to the spectacular collapse of early stars. So the challenging power of cataclysm has been with us since the beginning. We live on a planet of shifting tectonic plates, which means we will […]

]]> 0 4df30b0367ce7b38b9d52c531d2d49fb Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The survivors: the long consolation of ferns https://dtnetwork.org/?p=247959 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:14:34 -0400 Since the middle of March, when California’s shelter in place started, an acupuncturist friend has been offering weekly meditations via phone. She starts by asking us to imagine ourselves in a nurturing place in n […]

]]> 0 e1771372039ef610815efda85868275b Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, It couldn't be clearer: the power of interrelatedness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=246170 Thu, 14 May 2020 13:58:31 -0400 It doesn’t take a pandemic to tell us that our culture has its values and rewards upside down. But it may take a pandemic to show us that we are also completely dependent on sound ecosystems, where viruses such a […]

]]> 0 529c8f09fd807c8b0993ece44007a19e Betsey Crawford updated new location at Larkspur, CA 94939, USA https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/26293/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:21:52 -0500 0 54754a34f1e84178b1eea753ac18435b Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Transcendence on the Headlands https://dtnetwork.org/?p=244404 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:30:28 -0500 One of the most transcendent moments of my life happened on the Marin headlands, within view of the glittering city of San Francisco and the elegant curve of the Golden Gate bridge. You never know when the door […]

]]> 0 e4ecf377ca3256f439e495b2774e676f Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The patient genius of transmutation https://dtnetwork.org/?p=243796 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:20:12 -0500 “All is flux,” the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said 2500 years ago. “Nothing stays still.” He offered us a perfect description of transmutation, one of the great powers that cosmologist Brian Swimme ascribe […]

]]> 1 e853077dae0f67e55caf56c2b5fc22f0 Betsey Crawford updated new location at Box Elder, SD, USA https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/25218/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 10:22:40 -0500 0 4258e93dde564521bbc84814fb2c94a5 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, When Rivers Go to Court https://dtnetwork.org/?p=242915 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 01:28:30 -0500 Imagine a river taking her case to court. Arriving in her smooth, flowing robes, reflecting the blue of the sky, a shimmering train brushing the floor as she walks. She speaks in a deep, contralto voice. Her tone […]

]]> 0 7ec80e01217348a4bef738a90f7d8fa4 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Centration: the universe and the doughnut https://dtnetwork.org/?p=232634 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:54:21 -0500 We humans, given our growth and impact, have become an equivalent of the geological forces that have shaped the earth over its 4.5 billion year history. Where can we turn for guidance on how to be such a force? To […]

]]> 0 9fd20d5e715c25f1ad1ed5c9bf062e41 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The Power of Radiance https://dtnetwork.org/?p=228665 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:04:07 -0500 We humans, given our growth and impact, have become an equivalent of the geological forces that have shaped the earth over its 4.5 billion year history. Where can we turn for guidance on how to be such a force? To […]

]]> 0 bfa6b1e021b2ae8a721b2b261117cbe5 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, A Girl in the Garden of Eden https://dtnetwork.org/?p=19559 Sun, 08 Oct 2017 18:49:14 -0400 In my own personal deep time, I spent 5 of my earliest years in a woodland paradise, connected to the most elemental, ancient beings on the planet: trees, dragonflies, water, moss, mushrooms. I roamed woods, […]

]]> 0 1dac061876b947fd955fd00ad64cd4b6 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Treasuring bees, saving the world https://dtnetwork.org/?p=18900 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:04:26 -0400 Bees were here with the dinosaurs. Their relationship with flowers is 130 million years old. Paleolithic cave drawings all over the world show figures climbing ladders to get to the honey guarded by buzzing bees. […]

]]> 0 6d77a11e00afdc729ceafdf047cd590d Betsey Crawford posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/resource/the-intimate-bond-humans-and-dirt/#comment-4359 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:33:06 -0400 Thank you so much, Joyce. I’ve been reading about dirt’s importance in our gut, and how much we need to literally eat dirt. But the idea that we are inhaling precursors to serotonin while gardening is a new and very wonderful thought. No wonder it feels so good to play in the dirt! Love all these ideas. Loved the video on your home page. I, too,…[Read more]

In reply to - Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The intimate bond: humans and dirt Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” He could have said the […] ]]> c53903100e6596a27cf76385f6cc0329 Betsey Crawford posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/resource/the-intimate-bond-humans-and-dirt/#comment-4351 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:33:13 -0400 Thank you, Jennifer! As always, love your enthusiasm.

In reply to - Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The intimate bond: humans and dirt Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” He could have said the […] ]]> 4735fef970b600fdeadeb6c2dffeaf46 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The intimate bond: humans and dirt https://dtnetwork.org/?p=17962 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:46:01 -0400 Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” He could have said the same of mud pies, though it wouldn’t have sounded as delicious. But […]

]]> 4 5db5ae56b764c49a6fce433614421701 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, The Solace of Deep Time http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=17709 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:36:20 -0500 We can see deep time, and gain perspective from its daily presence, in the rock structures we travel by and through. The vast, open book of history that is now Utah is an excellent way to ponder Thomas Berry’s v […]

]]> 0 e4015b4e634e81596669889e8e458c87 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Sowing seeds into the whirlwind http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=17008 Mon, 21 Nov 2016 04:18:35 -0500 Learning, on yet another election night, that progress is not only not remotely linear, but that the way is often bewilderingly and heartbreakingly tortuous, I was reminded of Wendell Berry’s poem, February 2, 1 […]

]]> 0 c2c80137b31d7ca29e9b646d383f17a4 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, A Land of Stone Tablets http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=13810 Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:12:31 -0400 A celebration of the great beauty and deep wisdom of the unique, magical landscape of southeastern Utah. A place full of stone tablets holding both the vast breadth of our planet’s history, and the simplest of commandments.

]]> 0 c644dfe6e446aac4e967d50d5d126719 Betsey Crawford posted a new activity comment http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/resource/native-plants-the-genius-of-their-place/#comment-2736 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:17:20 -0400 Thank you so much, Jennifer. Discovering Terri in one of your Resource emails brought me not only the joy of reading Terri, but the inspiration to share posts with your amazing community.

In reply to - Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Native Plants: the Genius of Their Place Now that I’m free to wander and find native plants and flowers wherever I go, I often remember the spirit of a place by the plants that I […] ]]> 21f054d008ecd94ed1134fdd827f1622 Betsey Crawford wrote a new post, Native Plants: the Genius of Their Place http://wptaverncommunity.wefoster-platform.co/?p=13016 Fri, 13 May 2016 20:13:01 -0400 Now that I’m free to wander and find native plants and flowers wherever I go, I often remember the spirit of a place by the plants that I saw there. They tell me a complex story about the place they’re in. The […]

]]> 2 6f761818043cdbcf21958f1dba5e53f2 Betsey Crawford is now a Contributing Member https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/4406/ Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:22:08 -0500 0 7162550f5fa04a8afaecc0682d51209a Betsey Crawford became a registered member https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/3547/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:44:47 -0500 0