[ad_1] August 4, 2021– Palliative Care Physician, Dr. BJ Miller brings the sensitivity of design to the art of living to death. He learned to view life as a “creative enterprise” and greatly redesigned his own physical presence after an accident in which lightning struck him with 11,000 volts, leaving him without both legs and…

[ad_1] August 3, 2021– “On March 19, 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, Julie Yip-Williams, 38, died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years were nothing. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months old she was almost euthanized on the orders of a grandmother who deemed…

[ad_1] August 2, 2021– “If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you had the spyglass, there was nothing you couldn’t get information from. It had a hypnotic power over people. It had been created by a king who gave it to her daughter, to use it in the strangest…

[ad_1] August 1, 2021– “In 1971, more than four hundred tree seeds were collected and placed in an aluminum pot. They were chosen from all over the United States: the resinous sweet gum and the mud-loving southern loblolly; the northwest Douglas fir, green and mossy; the sycamore leafing through the midwestern floodplains and the coastal…

[ad_1] July 31, 2021– The 500 students at Clarksville Elementary School in Indiana worked with their music teacher during the course of the pandemic school year to create this moving music video to showcase their talents and bring smiles to the world. The exuberance and enthusiasm of these young singers remind us that they are…

[ad_1] July 30, 2021– “Did you know that we are all on the way to become someone’s ancestor? It’s true. We are all future dead, and 100 years from now, someone like me will come looking for you.I know this for sure because there is usually at least one in every generation, just like Buffy…

[ad_1] July 29, 2021– Wildife biologist Craig Downer’s childhood experience with his trusted horse, Poco, and his many adventures in the wilds of Nevada, led to a life of passionate advocacy for the protection of wild horses and donkeys in the western United States. Theirs is often a lonely struggle between raising awareness of the…

[ad_1] July 28, 2021– “This is, what I would say, the beauty of the approach that I have used is common when looking at the teachings in Semitic language of various prophets. It is common among Sufis today, it is common among Jewish mystics, that when you look at the words of a prophet or…

[ad_1] July 27, 2021– “Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, which means Woman Stands Shining) is an ambassador between two worlds. Mother, grandmother, artist and Navajo ceremonial leader, she has been deeply immersed in indigenous and land-based ways of living and being. Having grown up in a multicultural neighborhood next to Stanford University in California, she…

[ad_1] July 26, 2021– “Our development dilemma stems mainly from our disconnection from nature, both our external and internal nature: the loss of our experience of belonging and entanglement within the natural world and the loss of our communion with the very core of our own individual human being nature our soul. What we have…