Mind Matters Most
An exploration of mind: how our thoughts create our reality and how we can use this time to gain awareness of their negative tendencies and come out of self-generated suffering.
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
If we’re going to transition the global economy and survive as a species, we need to find ourselves a new source of prosperity for not just humanity, but all living beings.
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
By Paul Levy
For almost twenty years I’ve been writing about an invisible, contagious death-creating virus that no one is immune to that has been insidiously spreading and replicating itself throughout the human species. This deadly disease is a virus of the mind—the Native Americans call it “wetiko."
Civility and its Discontents
Dialogue across the political divide often replicates the Eurocentric cycle of harm and revenge, but it doesn’t have to.
Wisdom from the Flood
By Alain Ruche
People walked everywhere in water. We arrived at our destination, a small village where people lived in total inactivity caused by the flood waters. As the guest of honour I was offered a chair and invited to sit with my feet literally under 30 cm of water.
Weeding the Labyrinth
I gather pinecones shuttled onto the path by wind, toss
them outside the labyrinth beneath their mother tree.
A Letter to Herman Creek Canyon
By Ruth Lizotte
A calmness seeps through charred trees, and I am reminded of the Japanese word shibui which recalls “the beauty revealed by the passage of time.” Nothing lasts. Nothing is perfect.
WYSIWYG
Art swings in fruit trees, chalks foot paths, adorns fences: Civic galleries.
Lyrics write through us, riffs dispensed to fingertips. Collective songs mix
Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors
By Teresa Coady
Nature tends to live in ribbons—the forest corridor, the mountain range, the coastline, and the winding river. Any ecosystem that is disconnected from similar (or different) ecosystems will eventually die.
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Nobody yet knows what we can learn from this pandemic. We never will if we don’t reflect, ask hard questions, and discuss answers with people with diverse views.