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February 8, 2020

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Growing Your Own Garden: Emotional Resilience for Entrepreneurs

“It has been many weeks, and I finally got the itch to write again, this time about a symbol that in just a few days has given me a profound sense of relief: growing your own garden. I’m not speaking about an herb garden. I mean cultivating, in your own fertile mind, a set of values and standards by which you will measure your life’s worth separately from what anyone else says or thinks.” The following post by Leila Janah, the inspiring founder of SamaSource who passed away earlier this year, shares four strategies, including vital reading on moral philosophy, for keeping a cynical world at bay { read more }

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Are you growing your own garden? For more inspiration learn about Leila Janah’s life and contributions here. { more }

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February 7, 2020

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Beyond Civilization

“I want to live in a world with more wild salmon every year than the year before. More migratory songbirds. More blue whales, slender salamanders, red-legged frogs. More prairies, canebrakes, native forests, beds of sea grass. I want to live in a world with less dioxin in every human and nonhuman mother’s breast milk, a world with fewer dams each year than the year before. I’ll never live in that world. I’ll never know what it’s like to live in a world with more butterflies each year, where each year frog songs get louder, flocks of birds get larger, as do herds of bison, herds of elephants. A world where seeing a tiger or wolf or marten or hawk or eagle or condor is not remarkable in the slightest. I’ll never see that world. I’ll never know that security, that homecoming.” This poignant piece shares more. { read more }

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Insight-Out: Guiding Rage into Power

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February 6, 2020

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Living Light

“We had sailed Indonesias shattered archipelago before arriving at the uninhabited island chain of Wayag a gumdrop cluster of limestone peaks cloaked in an aura of brilliant, turquoise lagoons. Our crew, a ragbag of scientists and sailors, had come to this remote corner of the globe to study coral reefs. Unlike the bony, barren graveyards that haunt much of the tropical world, the reefs in this part of Indonesia are still vibrant, prismatic wonderlands, and if kept intact, can serve as nurseries to repopulate our oceans. These Technicolored coral wildernesses are unforgettable, yet what I saw at night during that voyage glistens most brightly in my memory.”… { read more }

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For more inspiration, here’s an interview with James Turrell: “Greeting the Light”. { more }

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February 5, 2020

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Of Wild Wolves And Bottle-Fed Squirrels

“In the arena of ocean ecology and conservation, Carl Safina is a superstar. Through television documentaries, his writings and the Safina Center, he’s been a vital force for years in educating the public about ocean pollution, overfishing and conservation […] I was enthralled with Safina’s blend of stories from his time in the field with elephants, wolves and orcas (killer whales) and the people who study them, especially with the way he blended those stories with the latest science of animal minds.” This fascinating interview { read more }

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For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin call with Carl Safina. RSVP info and more details here. { more }

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February 4, 2020

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Serious Fun

“Leon was a renegade even as a little kid, and bless him, lived a successful life doing it his own way. He came of draft age exactly as America was entering the war in Vietnam, told us he had no intention of getting drafted and then made good on his promise by baking bread for members of the Draft Board the morning he had to appear. There, he ceremoniously cut his loaf into generous slices and handed each member of the Board a well-buttered slice, telling them that his reasons for wanting Conscientious Objector status was baked into his bread! “I could try and say it in words,” he told them, “but tasting my bread will say it much better than I could.” Carolyn North shares more in this moving tribute to her brother. { read more }

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Practice being ‘joyful though you have considered all the facts.’ For more inspiration browse more of Carolyn North’s writing here. { more }

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February 3, 2020

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Gratitude, Grief and Finding Your Yes

“No one can say with certainty how our civilizational crisis will play out. We dont know exactly how much suffering and destructionhuman and nonhumanmight lie in store for us, or how soon. But we do know, with increasing certainty, that the actions of human beings have created horrific disasters and an existential predicament; and we also know that the actions of human beingsfor good or for illwill determine the future of our great grandchildren and the great grandchildren of thousands of other living beings. The stakes could scarcely be higher. We cannot wait to see what happens before we act on this awareness. Rather, we are obliged right now to do whatever we can to help prevent or mitigate the horrific scenarios that we have set in motion. What could be a greater moral imperative?” Terry Patten shares more. { read more }

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For more inspiration, read ‘Grief as Deep Activism’, by Francis Weller. { more }

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February 2, 2020

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Caped Crusaders

“At the age of four, my son Sam informed me that when he grew up, he wanted to be Robin Hood. And while I thoroughly approved of his notions concerning the re-distribution of wealth–I mean, let’s talk flat tax–I didn’t have the heart to tell him that forest outlaw was not exactly projected to be a big growth career in the twenty-first century. I figured he’d find out soon enough.” More in this beguiling piece by writer Mick Cochrane. { read more }

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February 1, 2020

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Wild Soul: A Nature Poem

Here’s a nature poem from one of the wild places of our amazing planet. A short poem that urges you to come closer to nature and add some wildness to your soul. { read more }

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Sit still and close your eyes. Let one of the ideas from the poem settle into you. Then quietly get up and go outside, leaving your phone behind.

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