nature's healing power

20. Finding sweetness in bitterness

January 8, 2021

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…

13. Finding beauty in tough times

September 4, 2020

Transcript I think back to the early months after the 2016 election. Sleepless nights. Shock. We had a feeling about what was coming, and we were not wrong. In the middle of those early weeks, I started posting a nature photo every day on Facebook. Out of my decades of sunsets and birds and mountains… Read More…

Resisting with joy

March 7, 2017

It swung in high gear at the Women’s March in January, and now, six weeks later, resistance is clearly a long-term deal. We’re running a marathon not a sprint. Yet it’s hard to keep going with new wrongheaded and cruel decisions coming down by the minute. So how do you keep from getting dragged down?… Read More…

This is a time

January 30, 2017

Here is my Letter to America including all the original links—each link a shout-out and thank-you to the writer, civil rights worker, water protector, scientific researcher, or philosopher who provided inspiration. The letter first appeared in Terrain.org’s Letter to America series. Dear America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words… Read More…

Letter to America, Martin Luther King Day 2017

January 16, 2017

Since the election Terrain.org is hosting a “Letter to America” series from writers coming to terms with the present political moment. Here is my contribution. Dear America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” our Declaration of Independence announces—words so bold they clearly belong to a different time than our own. For we could never… Read More…

A time for hopeful activity

December 29, 2016

The events of the fall are leaving people frightened about what the new year may bring. When a politician takes power by inciting people’s most vicious prejudices, aided by interferences both foreign and domestic, there is good reason to fear. Firm in love and in action But this is a time, instead, to be firm—firm… Read More…

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