The spirit of human solidarity and kinship with all life is strengthened when we live with reverence for the mystery of being, gratitude for the gift of life, and humility regarding the human place in nature.~Earth Charter~ Looking around at the scorched wreckage of today’s polity, one wonders how the Earth Charter even came into […]
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I turn once again to the millions of people who are sowing clover all over the world. The subtitle of Paul Hawken’s book Blessed Unrest is “How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.”
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My youngest nephew is standing at the gates of adulthood, appalled by what he finds beyond them. He has a lot of company, of all ages. But I feel particular sympathy for the youngest and tenderest among us. It is one thing, at my age, to acknowledge that I will not see the promised land
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We discover who we are in the midst of the deep voices of the universe.~ Brian Swimme ~ The word transformation is coming from every direction these days. My email inbox is full of invitations to webinars and symposia proposing to further the transformation of economics, health, education, our relationship to the natural world, our
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Inside, that’s where I store these moments, accumulated in a cabinet of noticings and happenings, brought out when I need them most, to illuminate. I must go into the world to find new things. They are always there. Always.~ Dara McAnulty ~ Faced with devastating news from every direction, I have been reading an incandescent book.
The Confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations in what is now upstate New York has been meeting for 1,000 years. United by a common goal to live in harmony, each meeting, large and small, is opened with the beautiful and incantatory Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. This enfolds each gathering in a culture of
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One early May day some years ago I was walking with a friend in a preserve near her home. I had discovered the trail the day before and was so delighted with the abundance of wildflowers I wanted to share them with her. She was equally delighted. And then, as we finished the trail, said,
It became an instant cliche as the 2020 pandemic revealed the threadbare fabric of our culture. The essential people who make day-to-day life possible are often the ones in the most precarious and low-paid jobs. I am grateful to have professional people in my life But I depend completely on the people who grow, harvest,
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During the impeachment hearings in 2020, I was as miserable as I’d been in a long time. Not because any of it was news to me, but because institutions are failing in ways we never imagined. We’ve never seen them tested this much before. That same week, the Trump EPA added to its boundless failures
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Half Earth is different. It is a goal. People understand and prefer goals.~ E. O. Wilson ~ On spring mornings thirty years ago I woke to a dawn chorus of birdsong so loud and rambunctious and beautiful that it filled me with joy every day. The birds had a lot to say as they flew
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