[ad_1] March 14, 2021– “Certain places, such as where water from a spring falls onto a slippery ledge of rock, sculpting the soil of canyons, or where steam bubbles from dark cauldrons in Yellowstone as bison crouch nearby, have the power to radically alter my state of consciousness, so that suddenly my mind-body remembers the…

[ad_1] March 13, 2021– “Death has been visiting my life a lot in this last year. During those times, I have often heard the well-known poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye, ‘Don’t stop at my grave and cry.’ This morning, while I was laying on the bed, I began to name my deceased loved ones in…

[ad_1] March 12, 2021– “All plastic begins in a factory. That is what we know. But it is not well understood where it goes next. Only 1 percent of the plastic released into the marine environment is accounted for, which is found on the surface and in the intestines of aquatic animals. The rest are…

[ad_1] March 11, 2021– Over ten semesters, Americ Azevedo’s seminar, ‘Time, Money and Love in the Age of Technology’, cultivated in students an awareness of the broader issues that form a context for their lives. He was well qualified. At the beginning of his life, he was reading a passage from Krishnamurti, “Long live the…

[ad_1] March 10, 2021– Liz Tichenor was ordained a priest at the age of 27. A few months before his ordination, Tichenor lost his mother to suicide. A year and a half later, her young son, just 40 days old, died of a probably curable but misdiagnosed medical condition. His astonishing memoir, “Night Lake: A…

[ad_1] March 9, 2021– “In modern Western society, we want to preserve everything and we want to live forever. We wage war on aging and write songs about always being young. Because death is considered neither more nor less than the end of the line. –Something to reject and resist – we live in constant…

[ad_1] March 8, 2021– “‘Can we dare to think that people are kind and shape organizations around this vision?’ That’s the question that Rutger Bregman examines in his latest book ‘Humankind’, and it’s one that anyone involved in youth and community work like myself grapples with on a daily basis. But is Bregman’s optimistic analysis…

[ad_1] March 7, 2021– “Are languages ​​then just a collection of words, syntax and semantics? I would like to see them sometimes as seeds and other as fields, alive as the minds, languages, throats, bodies and air through which they pass; germinating, taking root , bearing fruit, evolving as beings. But also maintaining space, expanding…

[ad_1] March 6, 2021– “We have a soul sometimes.Nobody has it without stoppingto survive.”In a New York Times article, Edward Hirsch called Wislawa Szymborska “a philosophically inflected poet who investigates great unanswerable questions with tremendous finesse. She meets her dizzying sense of the world’s fleeting splendor with excruciating historical knowledge.” Here, the Polish Nobel laureate…

[ad_1] March 5, 2021– Neighbors and plants can surely help us flourish, especially in tough times. Trapped in her apartment, a lonely woman waits for time to pass until one day she hears a knock at the door. On her doorstep, she finds a plant left by a friendly neighbor and discovers the joy that…