How an Army of Women Resurrected a River
Women in Vellore, India, have resurrected the Naganadhi river and the agriculture of the area that were almost lost to drought. In 2014, the women took matters into their own hands and worked with...
View ArticleThe Lost Words
"It had come to our attention that words were slipping out from the mouths and the minds of children, but it was only once the book was complete and beginning to make its way out into the world that...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vern Myers looks closely at...
View ArticleOn Courage
What does it mean to be courageous? Is it something seen outwardly, as when someone overcomes an overwhelming physical obstacle, or is it "the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with...
View ArticleThis Is Your Brain On Music
"Musical training doesn't just improve your ear for music -- it also helps your ear for speech. That's the takeaway from an unusual new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found...
View ArticleDo You Remember Your Song
"When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They...
View ArticleSilas Hagarty: Just Start Walking
Silas gives an analogy about how he approaches making his films. If I needed to get somewhere, I could ask, Richard could take me two hours west of here? You might end up saying, "Let's do it!" But the...
View ArticleEsther Perel: The Constant Dance Between Me and You
"We all come into this world with a need for connection and protection and with a need for freedom. And from the first moment on, we will be straddling these two needs -- what is me, and what is us?...
View ArticleOn Language and Landscape
"Light does not use syntax. Robins do not speak in syllables as we would recognize them. And so, language is always late for its subject in nature. I'm fascinated by language's affordance when it comes...
View ArticleWhat Does the Earth Ask of Us?
Robin Wall Kimmerer, scientist, professor of environmental botany, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and spellbinding storyteller, helps us to hear what the earth is asking of us. With a calm and soothing...
View ArticleAnnie Dillard on the Winter Solstice
"Rilke considered the cold season the time for tending ones inner garden. 'In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer,' Albert Camus wrote a generation...
View ArticleCultivating Hospitality
"Each of these three types of hospitality has strengthened my ability to accommodate the strange -- that thing or quality that is different from what I experience. At the very least, I hope these...
View ArticleThe Deep Heart
"John Prendergast is a retired psychology professor, spiritual teacher, and the author of books such as 'In Touch' and 'Listening from the Heart of Silence.' His new book is titled 'The Deep Heart: Our...
View ArticleBe Love Now
"Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You're being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your...
View ArticleKintsugi: The Golden Joinery of Love
Sue Cochrane is a former family court judge who sought to bring more love into the practice of law. The forces she battled were not confined to the court room -- among them, poverty, violence,...
View ArticleNight Shift at the Marriott
Picture this: It's almost 11pm on a hot August day. You're exhausted, having just driven over 600 miles, and you arrive at the newly opened Marriott, your last hope for a place to lay your tired body...
View ArticleLove and Philosophy Between Prison Walls and Ivory Towers
In 1987, while teaching a class at MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] on nonviolence, philosophy lecturer Lee Perlman had a novel idea: "Why not take the students to a prison, to talk with...
View ArticleMETAdrasi: Escorting Children to Freedom and Hope
"3,788 unaccompanied refugee children are currently located in Greece, having been violently separated from their families. For these children there are only 1,635 places in proper accommodation...
View ArticleLeading Above the Line
"In this Farnam Street interview, Jim Dethmer, founder of The Conscious Leadership Group shares practical advice about becoming more self-aware, ditching the victim mindset, and connecting more fully...
View ArticleWild Borders
When human cultures rub up against each other, we talk of melting pots and borderlands. When geographic cultures meet up and create a free-flowing arrangement of habitats and life forms, the term used...
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