Tree Dance explores the intersection of ecology, technology and culture through a semimonthly newsletter that you can subscribe to here.
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Tree Dance is a small thing and a larger idea. It’s part meditation, part celebration and part deliberation on what it means to pull back from the velocity of contemporary society in order to slow down and think of our place within it.
Tree Dance was created by Michael Cervieri. That would be me, the person typing these letters.
After years spent in New York City’s journalism, publishing and technology communities, I moved to the woods along the Connecticut-Rhode Island border. It’s quieter here. It’s more methodical. It gives you time and space to think.
This web site is largely curatorial. We look for stories and ideas that make us think or laugh or cry or jump up and down inside. In particular, the individual items we share here hopefully surface the larger intersection of the ecology, technology and culture in which we live.
Twice a month we send out a newsletter where we concretize what we’ve seen and read. If curiosity lead you to these words, we think you’ll like the words you find there. Give it a try.
It’s redundant to say we live in trying times. Our politics, media and environment are all reason to gather our toys and head home.
While dystopian aware, we also know that now is a time for community and collaboration, for long meals with friends and strangers alike, for engagement with the world around us.
Our goal is provide the time and space to do so. Like most things, we’re starting small. This web site and our newsletter are just the start of it.
The medium and long of it is a 30-acre property we’re cleaning up in hopes of creating a cultural space where we can work together to overcome 21st century anxieties, or to at least abide (and improve) them collectively.
If this sparks your curiosity and you’re interested in learning more, please say hello.
Tree Dance explores the intersection of ecology, technology and culture.
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