Fire and Water, June 24th.
As I prepared to flip my calendar from June 2020 to July, I saw that Wednesday, June 24, is still a holiday in Quebec,...
Tag: Earth
Self Reliance
How does a person with few skills of the kind needed to live off the grid, and even less life experience of relying on...
Mr. Quantum and Ms. Universe
Imagine that there is a massive body (Earth) orbiting a more massive body (Sun) and orbited by a smaller body (Moon); and that, strange...
In the Flow
Have you ever wondered how you fit in with everything in your experienced world? Or course, we all have. Another, more subtle question is:...
Going Without Going
There’s a Time, Space, and Knowledge practice, “Going Without Going”, in which–in the seated version introduced by Carolyn Pasternak, who passed on this Spring—you...
Logging and Clear Cutting
I realized a day or so ago that our society uses the word “logging” to refer to at least two distinct activities. Our forest...
The Wind has Returned.
You may have been here last week, rifling the wind chimes, disturbing the sleepy quiet of branches as they open to the Spring Equinox...
The Weaver is Being Woven.
In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
Why Self-Interest Often Prevails
Intentions that are inclusive, holistic, and concerned about the well-being of our communities can have a hard time producing a clearly focused message, especially...
Bridges Made of Dream
Lying in bed, I realized that I was either just waking up or still inside some kind of dream. In the dream–let’s call it...