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Ryan Van Lenning

Ryan Van Lenning

🌕MOON IS WITNESS

Today Moon does not look away.

2 min readOct 28, 2023

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🌕MOON IS WITNESS

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Ryan Van Lenning

The first thing I see arriving at Thacker Pass, NV, is a vast scar stretching horizon…

Upon opening my door, I witness thousands of giant grasshoppers swarming the dry grasses in this high desert.

3 min readOct 11, 2023

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The first thing I see arriving at Thacker Pass, NV, is a vast scar stretching horizon…

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Ryan Van Lenning

Thoughts on Places Names on Indigenous Peoples Day

Naming matters. It has power. It speaks to are relationship to place.

4 min readOct 9, 2023

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Thoughts on Places Names on Indigenous Peoples Day

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Ryan Van Lenning

LABYRINTHOCENE

As meaning-makers, knowing what story we’re in matters.

2 min readSep 3, 2022

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LABYRINTHOCENE

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Ryan Van Lenning

Of Rainbows and Whiteness

We’ve all been inflicted with a messy tantrum of white power rage in the form of a feckless white supremacist attempted coup. Though it is…

3 min readJan 7, 2021

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Of Rainbows and Whiteness

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Ryan Van Lenning

Beauty Has Left the Scene

For Breonna, George, and too many other BBIPOC victims of terrorist police and white vigilantes.

2 min readSep 24, 2020

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Beauty Has Left the Scene

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Ryan Van Lenning

THE PURPOSE OF GOING OUT IS TO COME BACK

The Return Stage of Wilderness Ceremony

5 min readSep 1, 2020

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THE PURPOSE OF GOING OUT IS TO COME BACK

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Ryan Van Lenning

Deep Belonging for the Great Turning

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness.” ~Robin…

6 min readAug 19, 2020

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Image of yellow-patterned log with water flowing over.

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Ryan Van Lenning

Ryan Van Lenning

Ryan is an ecotherapist, wilderness rite-of-passage guide, and poet, founder of Wild Nature Heart, and the author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul.

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