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Committing to your hunger

February 2, 2021 Leave a Comment

Transcript If you’ve ever watched a nature documentary, you’ve seen a clip of it—a lion with muscles rippling sweeping across the savanna toward a zebra or gazelle. The lion is fully committed to the chase, bursting into top speed at a moment’s notice to satisfy their hunger. When it comes to getting their food, animals…  Read More…

Tagged With: ancient Greek philosophy, attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, circle of life, Earth justice, ecological niches, economic growth, greed, Hesiod, hunger, hungry beasts, joy, justice, labor, predator-prey relationship, profit, sharing, work

 

Finding sweetness in bitterness

January 8, 2021 2 Comments

Transcript Many years ago a Turkish Sufi teacher named Baba gave me a word of advice. I was at a turning point in my life, facing a tough choice, one that was bound to feel bitter no matter what. Baba looked at me with shining eyes and said, “In life, there is always sweetness and…  Read More…

Tagged With: Angela Davis, Bandy X. Lee, Black Lives Matter, consolation in nature, divine discontent, evolution, fossil fuel divestment, good trouble, healing power of nature, nature's healing power, pandemic, prison abolition, public mental health, tree science, winter

 

Filling the hungry with good things: A Christmas meditation

December 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Transcript I can still say the words from memory—Luke 2:1–20, King James Version, the verses I recited for the Christmas program at church when I was in grade school. It’s the story of the baby in the manger and the shepherds and the angels. Recently I took another look at the Christmas story in Luke,…  Read More…

Tagged With: animals, attitudes toward animals, Book of Luke, Christmas, Christmas story, equality, inequality, law of property, Magnificat of Mary, O Magnum Mysterium, property law, rich and poor, Roman Empire, social justice, social revolution

 

A crocodile, a virus, and the false promise of supremacy

November 20, 2020

Transcript As the pandemic rages now through the heartland, I’m trying hard to understand how so many people in this country can be so convinced that this coronavirus is not real—even some people who are dying of it. Maybe you heard the interview this week with a nurse in South Dakota who says the some…  Read More…

Tagged With: COVID denial, COVID hoax, delusion, denial, food chain, human supremacy, humility, Jonathan Metzl, pandemic, predation, predator, predator-prey relationship, prey, racism, struggle for survival, supremacy, survival, Val Plumwood, virus, white supremacy

 

The law is in the ground

October 30, 2020

Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Aboriginal man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that…  Read More…

Tagged With: cool burning, cultural burning, Earth jurisprudence, Earth law, ecocide, greed, health, history of law, Indigenous values, inequality, inequality and health, land health, land-community, law of property, ownership, property, property law, reparations, rights of nature

 

Loving the Earth: A new traditional value

October 16, 2020

Transcript I’m listening hard these days to voices that have a lot to say about the Earth crises we’re in. Voices that are sharing a wealth of ideas about where to go from here. Many of those voices belong to Indigenous people and young people. And what I hear from all of them sounds something…  Read More…

Tagged With: climate change, climate crisis, connecting with nature, Indigenous values, loving the Earth, traditional values

 
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