This past weekend, I was invited to participate in some sacred ceremonies belonging to another culture. I was welcomed into something I have very little understanding of and held there, supported. I was included. It was a situation where I could easily have been held at a distance, left to observe. But I was drawn … Continue reading Belonging
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I've been thinking a lot lately about discipline and focus, specifically in relation to directing energy to accomplishing things. To be clear, especially in this goal driven society we live in, achievement isn't everything, but there is a special satisfaction in creating something, in making it happen. Despite the satisfaction inherent in reaching a goal, … Continue reading Practice
Don’t look to others to give you happiness. Grow it within yourself and share it with the world around you. Bets are, if you give a bit of your happiness to the world, it will begin a ripple effect, and who knows how many other people you can help. It’s never too late to decide … Continue reading Inscribing
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --Rumi It's November now and and as we slip toward the end of the calendar year, I can't help but notice the darkness. It's both the physical … Continue reading The long path home
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig van Beethoven Soup. It's basic. Though the ingredients change, it's part of almost every culture, which means almost all of us can conjure a memory of sitting down and sipping or spooning soup to our lips. We can imagine the warmth in our bellies. … Continue reading The Soup
The more our world looks and functions like this natural world, the more likely we are to be accepted on this home that is ours, but not ours alone. -Janine M. Benyus There isn't a week that passes that I don't observe something in nature as an example for human life. … Continue reading Biomimicry and Community
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. -Gary Snyder A few days ago, someone I hadn't seen in awhile asked me if I had razed the little forest in front of my house and finished an extensive permaculture layout I had designed last winter. I was pleased to say I hadn't. It's … Continue reading Forest Speak
