Sangha of Auspicious Companions

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May 28, 2019

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Wangari Maathai: Marching with Trees

The late Wangari Maathai–biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize–founded the Green Belt Movement to create designated areas of park, farm, and uncultivated land around communities. It has contributed to the planting of over 52 million trees. Across two decades, she was at times beaten and imprisoned as she battled powerful economic forces and Kenya’s tyrannical ruler. Her books include the memoir Unbowed and Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World. She’s also one of the 100 heroic women featured in the book Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Listen to her story as she is interviewed here. { read more }

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Maathai battled both for conservation and for human rights. What can you plant today to bring more green into your community? What rights need defending in your area?

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May 27, 2019

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We Are Designed for Connection

Diane Poole Heller, a licensed therapist and noted expert in trauma, integrative healing, and secure attachment, talks to Tami Simon of Sounds True about the different attachment styles that we pick up in childhood and carry subconsciously into our adult behaviors. They discuss strategies for coping with and healing from insecure and disorganized childhood attachment. Diane explains how these attachment patterns are engraved in both the mind and body, highlighting the long-term effects of trauma and neglect. { read more }

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Diane shares a visualization practice for disidentifying from generational trauma and strategies for increasing our innate connection to others. Experiment with one or two of these strategies this week.

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May 26, 2019

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The Courageous Mary Oliver

Lisa Starr shares her insights from the last years of her friend Mary Oliver’s life. From this deep perspective of love – we see Mary’s courage, strength and generosity. She lived her craft – listening for the words – to the very end – using them to transform the heartbreak of living into things of beauty. { read more }

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Is there a heartbreak in your life, that by changing your perspective – it could be transformed into a thing of beauty?

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May 25, 2019

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George Orwell: Why I Write

When George Orwell was sixteen, he discovered the joy of words while reading Paradise Lost. In this essay, Orwell considers his motivations for writing. In general, he believes writers are motivated by four reasons– sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. It is the age in which a writer lives that provides the reason. By 1936, Orwell was firmly grounded in political purpose: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism.” He explains this is not “wholly public-spirited,” but the drive by “some demon” and while he cannot be certain which of the motivations is actually stronger, it is only when his motivation is political that his books are alive and have meaning. { read more }

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In your own work, consider your purpose and how it makes you come alive and have meaning.

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May 24, 2019

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Kitbull: A Moving Story of Friendship Between Dog and Cat

In this heartwarming Pixar short, an unlikely friendship forms when a stray cat encounters an abused pit bull. Together, the pair discovers that trust and companionship can mend even the most painful of wounds. Watch their journey unfold here. { read more }

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Enjoy this complementary video about a real life friendship between two very different species. { more }

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Kitbull: A Loving Kindness Story Between a Dog and a Cat

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May 23, 2019

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How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

“Margaret Atwood describes The Gift, by Lewis Hyde, as ‘a book about the core nature of what it is that artists do, and also about the relation of these activities to our overwhelmingly commercial society.’ Bill Viola has called it ‘the best book I have read on what it means to be an artist in todays economic world.’ Robin McKenna is the writer, director and producer of a feature-length documentary inspired by Hyde’s bestseller. Her film, GIFT, takes us to settings as varied as the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, a potlatch ceremony in British Columbia, and an art museum in Melbourne, to explore some contemporary ways of being where artistic expression and generosity of spirit have primacy.” This interview with McKenna shares more. { read more }

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May 22, 2019

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Solar Sister

Solar Sister is an organization that believes women are an important solution to the problems of economic equity and environmental change. Women in rural Africa are provided with opportunities to access solar powered products to help them run small family businesses, to cook without using harmful fuels, and to educate children. Solar Sister’s Communications Director Fid Thompson shares in this upbeat article how gratefulness echoes through this multi-faceted approach to endowing women, eliminating poverty, and attaining sustainable energy solutions. Change that helps others become self-supporting can happen in sustainable ways, and we can provide backing even from across the ocean. Read on to learn more about this empowering organization. { read more }

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Consider how you can simplify your energy use. In so doing, feel your connection to others who have much less than you, but still have lives of hope and meaning.

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