Asha Gond at the Skating World Championships
Change means movement. If you want change you have to disrupt something. See how one skateboarding park in a rural Indian village rippled out into changes in gender restrictions, caste restrictions and...
View ArticleRumi, Grace & Human Friendship
Tami Simon speaks with Coleman Barks-- a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi-- about the extraordinary friendship between Rumi and his teacher Shams Tabrizi.
View ArticleTo Become a Better Leader, Question Your Assumptions
"When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, he wanted to make the case for why executives should reconsider...
View ArticleLove Letters from Seaweed
"Love Letters from Seaweed was created during the summer months I spent exploring mid-Coast Maine. Each day just before sunrise, I biked to Birch Point Beach to witness the shores changing topography...
View ArticleThe Alchemy of Bowing
"Since the third century CE to this day, bowing to the Buddha is the most common practice for Asian Buddhists. However, among Westerners, bowing practice, as compared with meditation, is not as...
View ArticleThe Forest of Orchids
"As Colombia continues to suffer violence and unrest, one family seeks to change the country's story from one of destruction to one of restoration and healing by planting thousands of native orchids...
View ArticlePhone of the Wind
"'Hello. If you're out there, please listen to me.' On a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan is a phone booth known as the 'Telephone of the Wind.' It is connected to...
View ArticleEmergence Disturbs the Concept of Linearity
When Bayo Akomolafe was a child he prayed to God for a "faith-o-meter" -- some kind of tool that would measure his worthiness and assure him of his place in heaven. "Of course I didn't get my prayer...
View ArticleThe Way of the Nomad
A "global nomad" with strong African roots, Wakanyi Hoffman and her husband have been raising their four multicultural and mixed race children across seven countries, three continents, on a mission to...
View ArticleTea, Ink, Life's Mystery
"Amidst the hectic streets of San Francisco, an elderly man, a small calming dot of black in a fast-moving wave, is momentarily glimpsed on the streets then reappears translucently through glass. He is...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Forgetting What You Know
We are so afraid to let go, to just be, to allow the unfolding of this marvelous life without getting in the way. This fear keeps us paralyzed and stuck. And longing for the peace that is possible --...
View ArticleFirst Passage
"What does not appear there but is equally present, somehow, is Antarctica. Antarctica of permanent daylight come summer and permanent night during the season when the sea ice grows. Antarctica, that...
View Article7 Principles of Meaningful Relationships for Servant Leaders
"A company is a collection of people working toward a shared goal that they couldn't otherwise do on their own. In essence, the foundation of work is relationships. However, often when we are stuck,...
View ArticleFour Stages of Groundedness
"The ground is both a metaphor and a felt sense. As a metaphor, it means to be in touch with reality. As a felt sense, it refers to feeling our center of gravity low in the belly and experiencing a...
View ArticleThe Art of Weaving
Being a home weaver is a revolutionary act. Jessica Green shares her life as a weaver, "remembering the importance and sacredness of cloth"; and as a homesteading anti-capitalist entrepreneur. "Being a...
View ArticleHow to Write Love
"Stranger Care is Sarah Sentilless heartbreaking, heart-expanding account of her relationship with her foster daughter, Coco--although saying that is a bit like saying Walden is a book about a pond. It...
View ArticleHer Art Informed Science: Maria Sibylla Merian
"I am an insect ecologist and a field biologist; Maria Sibylla Merian's work forms the very foundations of my discipline. Yet I am ashamed to confess that until relatively recently I was unaware of the...
View ArticleProbable Impossibilities
"In Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings, the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sieves four centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Kepler's revolutionary laws of planetary...
View ArticleOn Barry Lopez: Now That It's Come to This
"Once, before I knew him well, I asked Barry Lopez the earliest thing he could remember. Without missing a beat, the most widely traveled and sophisticated spiritual seeker in North American letters in...
View ArticleMelanie DeMore: Sending You Light
Singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore has a captivating voice-- a voice that blends her original music with African American folk music, spirituals, and ballads. Through her music and catalytic presence...
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