We begin to know the immensity of our heart-mind, and how it helps us to move beyond fear. What had isolated us in private anguish now opens outward and delivers us into wider reaches of our world as lover, world as self. ~ Joanna Macy, The Work that Reconnects Tonight, Dec. 11, is the third … Read more
How better to honor our war Veterans than to resolve to end the millennia of wars and violence? Here is another powerful, beautiful post from Riyana, who is at Occupy Oakland. (Remember the Occupy movement? Despite mainstream media having mostly moved on to other things (as we knew they would!), Occupy is still growing and … Read more
My spirit is chiming, vast and deep as a temple bell, filled with hope and awakening after spending the day yesterday in a workshop with the incomparable Joanna Macy. In deepest gratitude, I share here the words of her friend and colleague, John Seed, from their book (with Pat Fleming and Arne Naess), Thinking Like … Read more
I have had this much on my mind in the past few weeks, and so naturally, as these things always work, my friend Lynn Hayes just “happened” to have posted it on her site today. So I will echo her wisdom to share these words, because I know we need them now. May they resonate … Read more
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have … Read more
We are a circle Within a circle, With no beginning, And never ending… — Circle Chant by Rick Hamouris It’s time once again to join together every Sunday through Yule (or Christmas) for our annual Yule Prayer-Spell. This coming Sunday will be the first part, so you should gather your materials now. If you have … Read more