[ad_1] June 16, 2021– Singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore has a captivating voice, a voice that combines her original music with folk music, spiritual music, and African American ballads. Through his music and catalytic presence, DeMore has uplifted and unified diverse audiences. They have called her to sing at the bedside of the newborns and the dying….

[ad_1] June 15, 2021– “Once, before getting to know him well, I asked Barry López the oldest thing he could remember. Without missing a beat, the most sophisticated and traveled spiritual seeker of North American letters in a century, a writer of mystical sensibility and Grace, who he had been up to his armpits in…

[ad_1] June 14, 2021– “In Probable Impossibilities: Reflections on Beginnings and Endings, poetic physicist Alan Lightman sifts through four centuries of scientific advancement, from Kepler’s groundbreaking laws of planetary motion to the thousands of habitable exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission, to estimate that even with planets orbiting about one-tenth of all stars, the fraction…

[ad_1] June 13, 2021– “I am an insect ecologist and field biologist; Maria Sibylla Merian’s work forms the very foundation of my discipline. However, I am ashamed to confess that until relatively recently I was unaware of the magnitude of Merian’s contribution to biology. It has been in recent decades recognition of his scientific contributions…

[ad_1] June 12, 2021– “Stranger Care is a heartbreaking and moving account by Sarah Sentilless of her relationship with her adopted daughter, Coco, although saying that is a bit like saying that Walden is a book about a pond. It is, but ponds are just the beginning. It is, and yet I will never see…

[ad_1] June 11, 2021– Being a home weaver is a revolutionary act. Jessica Green shares her life as a weaver, “remembering the importance and sacredness of the fabric”; and as an occupying anti-capitalist entrepreneur. “Being a weaver and a farmer,” Green says, “is a lifestyle that is as much about remembrance as it is about…

[ad_1] June 10, 2021– “The ground is both a metaphor and a felt sensation. As a metaphor, it means being in contact with reality. As a felt sensation, it refers to feeling our low center of gravity in the belly and experiencing a deep silence, stability and connection with a lifetime. Feeling grounded does not…

[ad_1] June 9, 2021– “A company is a group of people working towards a shared goal that they could not otherwise achieve on their own. In essence, the basis of work is relationships.However, often when we are stuck, especially at work, it is because we interact with others in a transactional way rather than engaging…

[ad_1] June 8, 2021– “What does not appear there but is equally present, in some way, is Antarctica. Antarctica of permanent daylight when summer arrives and permanent night during the season in which sea ice grows. Antarctica, than no human being I had never seen Antarctica just over two hundred years ago, the continent where…

[ad_1] June 7, 2021– We are so afraid of letting go, of simply being, of allowing this wonderful life to unfold without getting in the way. This fear keeps us paralyzed and stagnant. And longing for the peace that is possible, if only we would stop all the efforts we make to find out. There…