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[ad_1] December 15, 2020– From Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska’s poem “Life-While-You-Wait” is “- a bittersweet ode to life’s string of unrepeatable moments, each of which is the end point of a decision tree fractals of what if our destiny, and a gentle invitation to soften the edges of the heart as we find ourselves…
[ad_1] December 14, 2020– “Get people to receive … to see the gifts they have been given … life itself! Life on the side of the road, with the flowers and the undergrowth, and the pebbles and the trees, and the sounds of the birds! And looking up and seeing the clouds, the light and…
[ad_1] December 12, 2020– Matt Licata’s new book is titled “A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Hard Times.” Here he talks to Tami Simon about what it means to “be a healing space, that is, to maintain a space for ourselves and others, as well as how we can feel held by something greater than…
[ad_1] December 11, 2020– This 30-minute documentary about the Hinewai Reserve on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula is an incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has regenerated into beautiful native forest over 30 years. Once considered a plan only expected from fools and dreamers, the manager, botanist Hugh Wilson, is now considered a hero locally…
[ad_1] December 10, 2020– “I believe that we have entered a sacred and very difficult moment, a moment in which the hero / heroines journey is for all of humanity, not only for individuals. How will we face the forces of destruction facing the entire world?” John Kinyon has dedicated his life to conflict resolution…
[ad_1] December 9, 2020– “Attention is an independent force that will not be manipulated by the parts. Cleared from all internal noise, conscious attention is an instrument that vibrates like a crystal at its own frequency. It is free to receive the signals transmitted at any time from A creative universe in communication with all…
[ad_1] December 8, 2020– As a professional donor and manager of some of the world’s leading foundations, David Bonbright sought innovative approaches to strengthen citizen self-organization rather than the dominant top-down bureaucratic models. While working at the Ford Foundation, David was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa for helping to…
[ad_1] December 7, 2020– What’s in a word? Writer Becca Rose Hall creatively explores that question using the word that indelibly entered the collective consciousness of humanity this year: COVID. By breaking down the word in different ways, look for the meaning in its roots and discover different facets of a changed world. (5 readings)…
[ad_1] December 6, 2020– While waiting to board a train, an old woman just wants to eat her cookies in peace, but mischief ensues when a teenager on the bench next to her seems determined to share them too. This delicious animation was directed by Andrew Cadelago, with music by Roberto Murguía. (327 reads) Read…
[ad_1] December 5, 2020– The “ancient language” that unites the human and more than human worlds is a recurring archetype in the histories of indigenous peoples, those who have lived in close proximity to a particular bioregion since time immemorial. The word in its primordial force runs through us like a current: what we say…