Neil Douglas-Klotz on The Aramaic Jesus
"This is, what I would say, the beauty of the approach that I have used is common in looking at the Semitic language teachings of various prophets. It's common among the Sufis today, it's common among...
View ArticleFor Love of Wild Horses
Wildife biologist, Craig Downer's, childhood experience with his trusted horse, Poco, and their many adventures in the wild lands of Nevada, led to a lifetime of passionate advocacy for the protection...
View ArticleBecoming an Ancestor
"Did you know that we're all on our way to becoming someone's ancestor? It's true. We're all future dead people, and 100 years from now, someone like me will come looking for you. I know this for a...
View ArticleClarksville Elementary School: We Are the World
All 500 students from Clarksville Elementary School in Indiana worked with their music teacher over the course of the pandemic school year to create this heartwarming music video to showcase their...
View ArticleMoon Tree
"In 1971, more than four hundred tree seeds were collected and ensconced in an aluminum canister. They were chosen from across the United States: the resinous sweet gum and mud-loving southern...
View ArticleHow to Recapture Your Imagination
"If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you had the spyglass, there was nothing from which you couldn't glean information. It had mesmeric power over the people. It had been...
View ArticleLive a Life Worth Living
"On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had...
View ArticleReframing Our Relationship to That We Don't Control
A palliative care physician, Dr. B.J. Miller brings design sensibility to the art of living until we die. He learned to see life as a "creative enterprise" and largely redesigned his own physical...
View ArticleWhat Do Gardens Mean?
"This much is clear: people calling themselves artists and who are called artists by others -- are making gardens and calling it art, or are making art in which the making of gardens is part of what...
View ArticleI Created the Repair Cafe
Throwing our broken appliances and other items away seems to be the only thing to do if they have become unusable, but Martine Postman in Amsterdam wasn't satisfied with this symptom of wasteful...
View ArticleOn the Road with Thomas Merton
"In May 1968, Christian mystic Thomas Merton undertook a pilgrimage to the American West. Fifty years later, filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and writer Fred Bahnson set out to follow Mertons path, retracing...
View ArticleThe Leadership Imperative
"Oren Lyons, seventy-six, is a wisdom carrier, one of the bearers of a variety of human tradition that cant easily be reduced to a couple of sentences. One reason he and the tradition for which he is a...
View ArticleThe Keys to Aging Well
"As a neuroscientist, professor emeritus of psychology, musician and best-selling author, Daniel Levitin has extensively studied the brain and its impact on aging. His latest book, "Successful Aging,"...
View ArticleRising from the Fire
"How can we reconcile the immensely destructive force of fire with its equally limitless creative potential? Forest managers light intentional blazes to clear overgrowth and begin anew the cycle of...
View ArticleThe Art of Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
"'How we spend our days,'' Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, 'is, of course, how we spend our lives.' And nowhere do we fail at the art of...
View ArticleA Morning When Everything Fell Into Place
"As I sat at the booth waiting for my Fast Start to arrive, I was beginning to believe there was something mysterious going on. No, that's not quite accurate. Actually, that moment in the parking lot...
View ArticleRemothering the Land
Soil and water are the beginnings of all things that sustain life. The indigenous women of Sogorea Te' Land Trust know this from their ancestors long ago and from the call of the children yet to be...
View ArticleCatching Sight of Yourself
"How things seem is not how things are. For most of us, most of the time, it seems as though the self is an enduring and unified entity, an essence, a unique identity: the recipient of wave-upon-wave...
View ArticleThe Quest to Understand Consciousness
"Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse...
View ArticleFinding the Mother Tree
"In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard--the renowned scientist who discovered the "wood-wide web"-- speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living...
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