Water of Life
"In a landscape where nothing is certain and old patterns of control tighten their grip, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee urges us to leave behind that which no longer nourishes us and work with the Earth toward...
View ArticleThe Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
"In his first two bestsellers, 'Care of the Soul' and 'Soul Mates,' author Thomas Moore dished out a large dose of preventative medicine for the preservation of our individual and collective souls....
View ArticleDear Vaccine: Pandemic Poetry
"A new poetry anthology called Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic illuminates how people around the world have experienced COVID-19. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Naomi Shihab Nye, an...
View ArticleThe Art of Life: A Documentary
"The Art of Life is a documentary about the art of living outside of conventions, in deep integrity with one's essence. As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael Behrens discovered...
View ArticleMy Wild-Like Refuge
"My current refuge isn't designated as wilderness or wild or special by anyone but me. It is not tucked away in some far-flung corner of the world where access is granted only to those wearing high-end...
View ArticleMy Real Name: A Conversation with Zoo Cain
"Creating is so natural for me now. I never have a block. I'm on a roll. This started as a little snowball at the top of a hill and rolled into an avalanche--an avalanche of artwork. I'd estimate I've...
View ArticleThe Land: An Adventure Playground
"The Land, so named by the children who use it, is an adventure playground in North Wales, one of hundreds of such playgrounds in the United Kingdom and Europe. The United States has only around ten...
View ArticleTheir Irrepressible Innocence
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a moist, gray November in my soul; whenever I find myself expecting to be cut off in traffic, to be shortchanged at the store, to...
View ArticleSpirituality, Art and Innocence
"Nothing can be loved at speed, and I think we might be looking at the loss of love in the world due to the increased velocity of ordinary life; the loss of care, skill and attention enough to ensure...
View ArticleGeorge Saunders on Writing
"As a writer, the work is always particularization to move from mere concept (tree, forest) into specific descriptions that sort of take that thing apart and then cause a new and more intense...
View ArticleLove Song
"Whether we accept it or not, the land itself is our earliest predecessor, the main character of all our stories, and listening to it, after all, is not a onetime undertaking but a practice." Chris...
View ArticleMerlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life
"Merlin Sheldrakes book Entangled Life [1] has rather taken the world by storm since it was published in 2020, appearing on the best-seller lists in both the UK and USA. Subtitled How Fungi Make Our...
View ArticleTruth and Reconciliation
Lis Cox, videographer and activist, is on a one woman mission to try to ensure that there is a future for young people. Drawing on successes of protests in the 1960's and 1970's, this video inspires...
View ArticleWendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge on Caretaking
"In 2018, Helena Norberg-Hodge sat down with Wendell Berry for a far-reaching discussion. The two are giants of the local economy movement. Berry is a poet and activist, an author of over forty...
View ArticleThe Link Between Landscape and Diaspora
"My observations of nature sparked adventures into landscape and history, and it was in bearing witness to these injustices that I found language. And observation and description are at the root of...
View ArticleEverything Happens for A Reason & Other Lies I've Loved
"In life's toughest moments, how do you go on living? Kate Bowler has been exploring this question ever since she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 35. In a profound, heartbreaking and...
View ArticleTyson Yunkaporta: Humans as a Custodial Species
"You don't need to believe in ghosts to balance spirit and live the right way in this world. You can use any metaphor you like--for example ego, id, superego and persona. Frontal lobe, monkey brain,...
View ArticleMessengers from the Past
"The Crown Jewel of our National Wildlife Refuge System, the Bosque del Apache, has been my annual pilgrimage site for a decade. The largest single population of sandhill cranes migrates to the Bosque...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Saved Native Song
"In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government continued its assault on Native Americans by demanding they relinquish their tribal languages and belief systems, teach their children English, and...
View ArticleDancing in A-Yard
DANCING IN A-YARD is a documentary that takes viewers into California State Prison where maximum-security inmates serve life sentences. The film follows the story of four men who were convicted as...
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