The Short Description
Tree Dance is an overstuffed notebook. It’s where I explore the intersection of ecology, technology and culture through a semimonthly newsletter that you can subscribe to here. The why of Why I’m Doing This is because I’m writing a book and these are the thoughts and influences I have while doing so.
This site, tree.dance, is where I curate the articles, videos and other media that influence what I write in that newsletter. It’s made possible because of the generous open publishing decisions the publishers of these articles take and make with their editorial. Please visit and support them.
The Longer Description
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 me time and space to think.
The Small Thing
I curate a significant amount of essays and videos here. I do so because I’m looking for stories and ideas that make me think or laugh or cry or jump up and down inside. I do so because they influence my writing. I do so because I hope these articles, essays, and videos surface the larger intersection of the ecology, technology, and culture in which we live.
Twice a month I send out a newsletter where I try to concretize what I’ve seen and read. If curiosity lead you to these words, I think you’ll like the words you find in the newsletter. Give it a try.
The Larger Idea
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, I also understand that now is a time for community and collaboration, for long meals with friends and strangers alike, for engagement with the world around us.
My goal is provide the time and space to do so. Like most things, I’m starting small. This web site and the newsletter is just the start of it.
The medium and long of it is a 30-acre property (opens in a new tab) I’m 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.
