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January 16, 2020

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Seeking Wholeness in a Time of Brokenness

Reverend Victor Kazanjian is the executive director of the United Religions Initiative (URI), a global grassroots interfaith peacebuilding network. URI has more than a thousand multi-faith groups working in over a hundred countries with a million volunteers to build bridges of cooperation between people of all faiths and cultures. Victor is ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and was trained as a community organizer working to address the systemic causes of poverty and injustice through the support of community-based groups. He’s also studied and deeply embodies Gandhian principles of pluralism and grassroots change. Along with Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, he for many years led the Gandhian Legacy Tour to India. Learn more about his work and journey in this inspiring interview. { read more }

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For more inspiration, tune into this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Home Nguyen, the founder and CEO of MindKind Institute with decades of experience in personal leadership, mind-body practices, and executive coaching. His mission is to develop mindful, influential and compassionate leaders and to help them master their awesome power in order to make a real difference in the world. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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January 15, 2020

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Finding Chika

Renowned author Mitch Albom introduces us to a story of love, a story about the making of a family through love. He shows us that the rules of what a family should look like don’t matter as long as there is love bringing them together. He introduces us to Chika, who became the much beloved daughter of he and his wife Janine after Chika’s mother was killed in the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Chika’s life was shortened by a difficult and rare brain tumor. The powerful love and joy she left behind continues to remind us that our job is to carry our children, to carry all of the children of the world. { read more }

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Read more about Chika’s story and how finding her changed Mitch Albom’s life. { more }

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January 14, 2020

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Micah Mortali: Rewilding

“Micah Mortali is the director of the Kripalu School, and a longtime wilderness guide. With Sounds True, he has published Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Micah about humanity’s growing disconnection from the earth and how “rewilding” can help slow that trend. They talk about rewilding both as individuals and as part of whole ecosystems. Micah also shares the story of an intense, revelatory trail encounter with a bear and comments on the “species loneliness” of urban environments. Mulling the sense of grief they have for humankind’s effects on the environment, Tami and Micah consider how modern people can grapple with being in exile from the natural world. Finally, they discuss the barriers many have to reentering nature, as well as ways to initiate your own rewilding experience no matter where you are.” { read more }

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Read more by Micah Mortali here: “Five Symptoms of Nature Deficit Disorder and How Mindfulness Can Help.” { more }

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January 13, 2020

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Kahlil Gibran on Befriending Time

“There is something odd about this notion of time as property. We are asked to give things time; we speak of taking time time off of something, time toward something. But how do we give or take this fine-grained sand that slips through the fingers the moment we try to cup it? Perhaps time is not so much the substance in the hand as the substance of the hand.” Maria Popova explores Kahlil Gibran’s reflections on time in this post. { read more }

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How do you relate to time in your own life?

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January 12, 2020

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Why I Run

“It is just after 4:00 am. I was dreaming about Missoula, running around Mount Sentinel just before dawn. I threw on a blue hoodie and began reciting in my sleep why I run.” Inspired by Terry Tempest William’s evocative reflections in “Why I Write,” long-distance runner and writer Nicholas Triolo offers this lovely stream of consciousness exploration of why he runs. { read more }

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Is there a practice in your own life that serves you in multi-dimensional ways, and that ‘lays bare your soul’? Consider writing your own reflection on the role it plays in your life.

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January 11, 2020

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Orion’s 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade

“From 2010 to the present, Orion Magazine has produced over fifty issues full of personal essays and science reporting, poetry and book reviews, photography and art, all responding to the most pressing issues facing the planet. Here are the 25 most-read Orion articles published within the last decade.” { read more }

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Reflect on the poems, books, articles or films that have particularly impacted you over the last decade.

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January 10, 2020

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The Reason I Jump: A Book by a 13-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“The thirteen-year-old author of this book invites you, his reader, to imagine a daily life in which your faculty of speech is taken away. Explaining that you’re hungry, or tired, or in pain, is now as beyond your powers as a chat with a friend. I’d like to push the thought-experiment a little further. Now imagine that after you lose your ability to communicate, the editor-in-residence who orders your thoughts walks out without notice. The chances are that you never knew this mind-editor existed, but now that he or she has gone, you realize too late how the editor allowed your mind to function for all these years. A dam-burst of ideas, memories, impulses and thoughts is cascading over you, unstoppably. Your editor controlled this flow, diverting the vast majority away, and recommending just a tiny number for your conscious consideration. But now you’re on your own. Now your mind is a room where twenty radios, all tuned to different stations, are blaring out voices and music. The radios have no off-switches or volume controls, the room you’re in has no door or window, and relief will come only when you’re too exhausted to stay awake.” Writer David Mitchell shares more in this introduction to his son Naoki Higashida’s extraordinary first book, “The Reason I Jump” { read more }

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For more inspiration read or listen to this NPR interview with Temple Grandin. { more }

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