Scaffolding for a Thrivable Planet
By Annie Spade
The young child is recognized as the ambassador of love. How is this most desirable quality nurtured and encouraged forward into adult life?
The Ecozoans
Everyone who breathes air, drinks water, takes in nourishment from the land, marvels at the moon, sun, and stars, and is conscious of being energized by wondrous processes that evolved over billions of years is an Ecozoan.
Unexpected Grace | Love Poem with Accolades
In my head I'm twenty-five, no more than thirty-two.
My body has a different perception, but it strives to do all I ask.
How Quickly the Light Changes | Before You Set Your Table
This cold late-winter morning,
so temporary in its grasp,
mirrors other beginnings,
other openings to holiness.
The Age of Freedom
I’m talking about some of our most deeply held and cherished ideals: the individual self, left vs right, religion vs humanism, free-market capitalism vs socialism, even democracy in its current form, all these have become false idols and dinosaurs, and the more closely we cling to them the harder it becomes to create space for a new civilisation to emerge.
Prayers in the Dark
Steeping ourselves in the uncertainty of these times, I pray we foster our innate visionary skills and a strong devotion within our hearts to serve what is truly sacred, our planet home.
Living Communally
As a long-time communal dweller, I know in my bones, mind, and heart, that a nurturing extended family of mostly unrelated individuals is the ideal social grouping for the human species.
Topophilia | Thicket
Move, and the thicket
impedes you, catches
your sleeve,
plucks you awake.
The Unchaining and The Unveiling
By Mino Akhtar
While it was rare for people to change their positions, the presence of empathy was palpable, whether it was a Palestinian listening to the embedded fear of the Holocaust in Jews and Israelis, or they in turn listening to the violent eviction of one of the attendee’s siblings from their home in Palestine.
Dismantling the Patriarchy Within
By Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili
Jung called the masculine principle within a woman, the animus; for a woman to really encounter her animus and to really work and transform him she first needs to walk through the valley of her own shadow.