Christie Green spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed herself and her family, and became a fierce and fluid exploration of womanhood, motherhood, stewardship, intuition, listening and kinship. Christie wrote a memoir about her experiences called Moonlight Elk that I rapturously devoured, licking my fingertips with every turn of the page, it is that delicious.
🦌 Terrain covered:
Life in Sante Fe, New Mexico
Hunting as a deep and embodied exploration of just about everything.
Listening to other than human perspectives as a landscape architect
Designing for soil, water, animal, pollination; landscapes in service of wild nature
Learning to hunt at 40
Weaving values into business
How to catch dreams
Why would you want to hunt alone?
Being an “other-centred” person
Following desire and intuition
The extreme paradox of loving and killing
Defying categories and boxes
Are there better and worse ways to hunt?
Could and should everyone hunt?
Communal local food relationships
Walking in fear as a woman, as prey
Dreams as soul expression
Writing sex scenes that feature yourself
The choiceless choice of creativity
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
Christie’s home on the web
Christie on Instagram
Get your mitts on Moonlight Elk (note: you can buy it anywhere, or ask your library for copies)
Moonlight Elk audiobook
Selected essays by Christie Green
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