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Priscilla Stuckey
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Nature :: Spirit podcast. Author of KISSED BY A FOX (winner of the WILLA Award in Creative Nonfiction) and TAMED BY A BEAR. Exploring ocean life. Actually autistic. PhD Graduate Theological Union. She/her.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Unusually beautiful breakers along the Kihei coast today, and surfers were out enjoying them. A minute of the magnificent ocean.
Peace.
August 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I wanted to watch the tsunami at the reef where we swim. So at the last minute I learned how to capture video on a phone. This is the Ulua beach webcam in South Kihei on Maui. The first wave surge happened later than expected, after dark, so no viewing. But here, for you, is the beach at sunset.
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Maui sunset report: After a day when the smell of smoke filled the air from a brushfire across the ridge, the wind has died, the birds have bedded down, and even Mr. Northern Cardinal, first to rise and last to sing, has drifted into sleep.

Peace.
A tropical bay framed by a tree canopy on the left and a small mountain on the right, glows rose-blue from the bright red and orange clouds slicing the air above it.
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Sunset report Maui: after extra strong gusts of wind all afternoon, the breeze has begun to settle down. The birds have quieted, except for one making big circles overhead, softly chipping.
Peace.
A tropical bay in the distance, framed by the canopy of a tree on the left and a low mountain on the right. The sky is clear, warming from blue to pink to red at the horizon.
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Touching joy in the morning. I get up to listen to the dawn chorus, and this Northern Cardinal couple circle around me with their warning "chink." One or both of them land on the roof each morning to check me out. Today I said a proper hello.

Good morning, Mr. Cardinal! 🌿
Close-up head and shoulders of a bright red male Northern Cardinal peering down over a roofline.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Touching joy first thing every morning. I step outside early, around 5:30 here, to enjoy the dawn chorus. The sky is that dark-bright blue of in-between. The worlds that can't be spoken are close, whispering, glad.
#cellshot
A waning nearly full moon set in a darkly blazing blue sky, with tree leaves and branches silhouetted black against the moon and sky.
May 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The memoir Educated grabbed me hard, resonating with authoritarianism in my story. So I explore authoritarianism in Western history, how it rests on a worldview going back to the 5th c. Here's to a different worldview—to starting with the knowing inside.
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Read: 56. Thirsty for the Waters of Life. We've had 2000 years of authoritarianism, and it shows. Welcome, friends! Here's another in a series on authoritarianism—where it comes from and how we can change it. Today's offering is all about why it's so "sticky," still winning people over...
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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We have such adorable blue ladybeetles! She's the ash-grey ladybeetle but bluish IRL. She eats bugs that live on papayas. Tinier than my pinkie, she carries the sky and Maui's West Mountain on her back, though you might have to zoom in and imagine a bit. 🌿
#invertebrate #bugsky #cellshot
Up-close ladybeetle in blue-gray tones resting on a mesh screen. On the wing casings that make up her back, 6 black dots marching across her shoulders, 6 larger dot-squiggles across her middle, and 2 black dots near her tail.
April 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Earthquake just came rolling through on Maui! This one right here on island, some miles from Hana. We sometimes feel the larger ones on the Big Island. Unusual to have one right here.
USGS earthquake listing shows 3.1 magnitude 31 km SSW of Hana, Hawaii
March 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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No King But Liam!

Ok, show me your royalty.
Close crop of a black cat standing looking out in the distance with sharp avocado-colored eyes. Definitely royalty.
March 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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"Sovereignty of mind is exactly what those who would control others cannot tolerate. Colonialism, authoritarianism, fascism—they are all attempts to ... rub out the knowledge arising from within a person & replace it with the knowledge & authority of someone else."
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A Substack frame with a photo looking up into the canopy of a large tree, and superimposed on it the words: 39. The Knowing Inside. Or why sovereignty of mind is the first requirement of democracy. PriscillaStuckey.Substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Maui sunset report: Rain is coming. The mists are beginning to settle in the distance. A breeze picked up and is sweeping through the pasture grass just out of camera range, rustling the grass in waves as it passes.

Peace.
A tropical bay in the distance, framed by trees on the left and a mountain on the right. Blue-gray clouds have settled low on the mountain and cover the sky. The view in the distance is hazy with mist.
January 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Maui sunset report: delicate shades of pink. The birds have settled into sleep. The only sounds: a lawn sprinkler, a dog barking far away, traffic in the distance.

Peace.
Delicate strips of light pink and gray clouds stretch across the sky in the distance, over a tropical bay framed by trees on the left and a mountain on the right.
January 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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This photo. I enjoy it so much I’m putting it on my new website. Java sparrows here in Hawaiʻi are just this adorable. Photo by Arduinna on Pixabay.
Sparrow-size bird perched on a stick, leaning forward and staring at you fully with one eye. The beak is large and red orange, the head is black, the body is gray, and there’s a fat white cheek patch.
January 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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From the door of a cafe in Santa Fe many years ago
A large orange sticker in the corner of a window reads, in white font with sharp angles that conjures up Native American memes: KEEP CALM AND DECOLONIZE
January 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Maui sunset report: After a few days of hazy vog and itchy eyes, the south wind has died and is no longer bringing Pele’s signals over from the Big Island. Utterly calm and still tonight. It’s nice to get our clear air back.

Peace.
A tropical bay framed by trees on the left and a mountain on the right. The water is calm and light blue. The sky is pale blue with narrow bands of pale pink clouds reaching across the horizon.
January 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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My heart is in his paws
Play me, little bro
So all I hear is music
A black cat curled up, his face resting on folded front paws. He is asleep.
January 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Maui sunset report: Fully overcast in shades of muted gray with just the barest hint of pink. But enough for the water to pick it up.
A tropical bay in the distance, framed by trees on the left and a mountain on the right. All is hazy and gray with just a hint of pink.
December 28, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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45 seconds of waves from the Pacific.

Peace to each of you in this holiday season.
December 26, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Wishing a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and a peaceful day to those who don’t. Here is a recent predawn view from Maui. December 2.
A tropical bay framed by trees on the left and a mountain on the right. A sky of the palest pink and blue is reflected in the still water.
December 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Just opened ORBITAL—yippee, the library hold just came through!—and already I understand what people have been gushing about.

#amreading #fiction
Text reads, When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go on to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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A minute of the Pacific, from the lands of the Hawaiian people. 🌱
December 9, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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It was SO good at Thanksgiving I turned right around and made another one! Purple sweet potato pie with macadamia nut crust & haupia topping.

Life is short. Eat pie first!

Haupia: a gelatin of lightly sweetened coconut milk.

#glutenfree #lactosefree
Pie baked in glass plate, a quarter of the pie gone. Thick crust is golden brown, filling is deep purple with smooth thick white topping. Bliss.
December 8, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Maui Sunset report: pretty in pink.

Peace.
A tropical bay framed by tree canopy on the left and a mountain on the right. The sky is streaked with pink and blue, and the water is tinged faintly lavender.
December 3, 2024 at 4:40 AM