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24. A duty of care

May 28, 2021

Transcript “A duty of care.” I ran across the phrase this week in a book I was reading, To Speak for the Trees, by the botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. In the book Diana talks about growing up in Britain and Ireland—how she was orphaned at the age of twelve and then how her mother’s people, who…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aboriginal, aloha 'āina, care, caring, Celtic, Claire Hiwahiwa Steele, custodial ethic, duty of care, equality, ethic of care, Great Law of Peace, Haudenosaunee, Hawaiian, Indigenous, Indigenous values, Iroquois, kuleana, land, love, mālama 'āina, Mary Graham, Oren Lyons, Peasants' War, relationships with nature, responsibility, responsiveness, social justice

 

23. Going on a spirit journey

April 9, 2021

Transcript So I want to talk more about prayer or meditation on a path of nature spirituality. Of course on this path there are many possible kinds of prayer and meditation, but today I’d like to focus on one in particular: the practice of going on a spirit journey. I want to talk about this…  Read More…

Tagged With: coming into the heart, dethroning the ego, discernment, ego, love, meditation, mindfulness meditation, prayer, Spirit Helper, spirit journeys, still small voice, truth vs. ego

 

12. Love in a time of catastrophe

August 21, 2020

Transcript So, how do we deal with the fatigue that sets in during a time like this? How do we possibly grieve 170,000 deaths in this country from a pandemic? Not to mention the daily assault on truth by this administration? Lies that are easy enough to disprove, but the torrent of them wears on…  Read More…

Tagged With: Barry Lopez, connecting with nature, connecting with rocks, connecting with trees, connecting with water, everyday rituals, love, two-minute vacation

 

9. A graceful heart: John Lewis and the power of soul-force

July 31, 2020

Transcript This week the we are remembering the great Representative John Lewis. Which has led me back to his interview some years ago with Krista Tippett of On Being. It was an hour I will never forget—I was eating a packed lunch in my car, parked in a deserted lot behind a bank, hooked up…  Read More…

Tagged With: Beloved Community, civil rights movement, compassion, freedom, freedom rides, John Lewis, love, love in action, love-force, nonviolence, satyagraha, soul-force, truth-force

 

7. The freedom of the wind

July 17, 2020

Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  Read More…

Tagged With: becoming, creativity, evolution, freedom, humility, love, opening the heart, spirit, story of nature, surrender, unpredictability, way of the heart

 

Opening to beauty

September 29, 2017

The scene above interrupted our dinner one recent evening, the sunset glow too beautiful to do anything but stare. We stopped eating and simply looked. Long golden rays kissed the tips of chamisa and rose and wild hyssop and Russian sage in our garden while at the same moment lighting up the Sandia Mountains a…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward nature, awe, beauty, garden, generosity, love, nature inspiration, nature spirituality, Sandia Mountains

 
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