Choosing Heart and Risking Vulnerability
I am the river and the river is me. — Maori saying “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then. I am large. I contain multitudes.” — Walt Whitman There are…
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Inspirations & Strategies from Nature
Poetry of Resilience — A Film and 6 Poets
James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games, speaks about the role of poets in society. He speaks with a disturbing eloquence even, of how they carry our hope for the future;…
Communion — as a Strategy of Resilience
Many a thoughtrunning through this 2:00 AM mindlike children in a playgroundeach following a trailof their own spontaneous desiretogether and alone weavingwebs of patternsmirroring how it iswe commune with the…
Sleeping with Rumi: Two Kinds of Resilience
It is true. I slept with Rumi last night. Yes. It is true too that he wears a beard and that after a January’s week of being alone in a…
What's Killing the Aspen?
“What’s Killing the Aspen?: The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble” is the title of a Science and Nature article in the October 2008 Smithsonian Magazine. Thanks to…
Heart Opportunity Knocking — At Your Door!
The World is my teacher filtered through eyes memories and emotions attitudes moods and beliefs conscious and unconscious rigidities and flexibilities of body and heart and spirit and vision… and…
Gary Snyder on "Wild"
The word wild is like a gray fox trotting off through the forest, ducking behind bushes, going in and out of sight. Up close, first glance, it is “wild”-then farther…