The Hands That Hold the Bird A picture from my childhood, long lost:A sketched character, holding a bird. I remember...
I Too Often Forget I too often forget how simple it can beto listen to others, rather than tell themwhat...
Irish Moon Woundedamong her trees, it’s 3:20 a.m. I ponder heras a long pour of Guinnesson a slow night. Vow...
I was walking in the city, troubled by the terrible state of our world. Passing an alleyway, I thought I...
In This Darkest of Nights, Love Came 1 Everywhere I look, a darkness is spreading,carried on waves of coercion,waves of...
My fellow citizens of the whole world,I invite you to write your own poem beginning with that title line! America,...
All the Places I Haven’t Found God A lady at AA says she found God under a bridge Just below...
The Name of God Is Not a Word The name of God is not a word. The Incas knewthat God...
From the Beginning There is a hushfrom the beginning of time, where you can hear yourself blink. There is a...
THE SOLO TRAVELER’S HANDBOOK: For those who love and those who long to go solo Janice Leith Waugh [Full Flight...
With Trump, It’s Come to This When the President’s mind is a maelstrom, an abyss, a sinkhole into which he...
Horrors at the end of our newspaper spoon I’m horrified by what I woke up to this morning, or, more...
Art Art was a gift sent to the bottom of a pit, a pit like Joseph’s. It was survival, it...
Kate Rawarth, the senior researcher for Oxfam featured in Paul and Kate Maple’s 2013 documentary, Connected: A Film for Change,...
Wouldn’t it be great if you could determine how far you’ve progressed along the path of spiritual evolvement? While it...
All alone in its corner of the universe, a sun shone. “Ha-ha, I’m MIGHTY!” it thought, enjoying the sheer power...
Damanhur, an amazing intentional community located in the Italian Alps, has begun an international network to activate the connection between...
In looking for images to go with an article, I stumbled across one that held me spellbound. I followed the...
Sometimes all it takes is one second for everything in your life to come crashing down. Once you've been alive long enough you know this—perhaps too well. Everything changes, and sometimes...
Come. Walk with me. Weld yourself to me and together as one, with multiplied senses, let us invade opened fields. Ecology takes creation and breaks it into a study of each organism in its...
Humankind is stuck. We haven’t acted with conviction on climate change. We haven’t devoted the less than one percent of income needed to eradicate...
Parks Canada is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Established as the Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it is the oldest and one of the largest national park services in the world...
Joanna Macy’s text, World as Lover, World as Self explores our relationship with the future and the future of our planet. In it, she examines what we can do as individuals...
In her preface to The Good Body, Eve Ensler responsibly explains her choice to write a play about her stomach...
