A Forest Walk – a guided practice by Kimberly Ruffin

As the pandemic begins to ebb and we begin to emerge from a
difficult and transformative year, we are taking a moment to pause
as the warmth of summer and the cool shade of trees—here in the
Northern Hemisphere—beckons to us. Kimberly Ruffin is a Certified
Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and author of Black on Earth:
African American Ecoliterary Traditions. As a companion to
Kimberly’s past Emergence essay “Bodies of Evidence,” she created a
guided practice of walking through the forest. For Kimberly, faith
is a continuous exchange of belonging, an experience that’s
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