Norie Huddle

Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity.  Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie's background is eclectic and international.  She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the…

Three Poems

Something about a Goat | A Divination of Sorts – Portland, Maine | The Minor Poet Writes One More New York Poem

Among the Nightingales in Berlin

David’s latest recording projects are focused on collaborations with nightingales. As part of the work, Rothenberg and an international band of musicians perform music in concert with nightingales in Berlin’s public parks.

The River Threshold

"She and I sat at a picnic table near a stream with a therapist who was also my uncle, and we said out loud in the summer June air that we couldn’t give what the other wanted. She said she couldn’t live with me anymore and be who she wanted to be. I said I couldn’t live indefinitely separate and fragmented. We said these things for the purpose of freeing each other, though freedom didn’t liberate…

The Noosphere Is Here

The great Jesuit anthropologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has long fascinated us with his vision that the world would evolve into a “noosphere,” [1] a great web of consciousness enveloping the Earth. It seemed a lovely but distant ideal, yet the Digital Revolution has now made that dream a reality.

New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens*

Thomas Hübl: William, in all your work in conflict areas, what do you see as the symptoms of trauma? And do you see that there’s a kind of recycling of trauma as a part of the conflict you work with? William Ury: Thomas, it’s a pleasure to be speaking with you. I was trained originally as an anthropologist and was always keen to study human beings and how we related. The passionate question…

Unheard Invitations: Piercing the Veil Between Species

The wild animals are lonely for us. We are lonely for them. We have become disconnected from each other. What if we expanded our sense of community to truly include all living beings? Included their perspectives, needs, and gifts? What would be the state of our environment then? Runs-Like-the-Wind In 2000, I founded Earthfire Institute, a wildlife sanctuary, and lived with rescued…