Sangha of Auspicious Companions

April 30, 2021

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Imagine a World Without Prisons

Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach. “Imagine a world without prisons,” Van Buren says. “And join me in creating all the things that we could build instead.” { read more }

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April 29, 2021

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Karma Quilts: One Woman’s Labor of Love Offering

“In her heartwarming book, My Grandfather’s Blessings, Rachel Remen says, “You do not need money to be a philanthropist. We all have assets. You can befriend life with your bare hands.” I am grateful for being able to befriend life with my bare hands through the making of quilts and prayer shawls.” Jane Jackson is a mother, grandmother, former mid-wife, writer and much more. Over the decades she has has made and gifted exquisite memory quilts to people who have lost loved ones. In this gentle piece– that includes a beautiful slideshow of her work– she describes the evolution of her pay-it-forward initiative, Karma Quilts, and the patchwork of people, places and events that shaped her quilting journey. { read more }

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What do you find yourself stitching together at this stage in your life? If you’re interested in learning more about Karma Quilts and how to join in this effort, you can RSVP to join a special circle with Jane here. { more }

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April 28, 2021

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An Illustrated Poster for People Who Love Their Work

‘Arbejdsglaede’ is a wonderful Scandinavian word that literally means ‘work-love’ or ‘work-glad’. There is no direct translation for this word in the English language, so Maptia decided to use crowdsourcing to explore its meaning. More than 200 people who love their jobs shared three words that described how they felt on a Monday morning. A beautiful poster summarizes the results, with the size of the words representing how many people felt each emotion and what they do for a living. { read more }

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Take time to reflect on what you love about your work and on one thing you can change to make your work more meaningful.

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April 27, 2021

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The Body’s Grace: A Paralyzed Yoga Teacher’s Insights

“Matthew Sanford says he’s never seen anyone live more deeply in their body — in all its grace and all its flaws — without becoming more compassionate toward all of life. He’s a renowned teacher of yoga. And he’s been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978, when he was 13. He teaches yoga to the able-bodied. He also adapts yoga for people with ailments and disabilities, including military veterans. But Matthew Sanford has wisdom for us all on the strength and grace of our bodies, as we move through the ordinary span of our lives.” { read more }

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Six years ago Ellen Pavitt was in a plane crash that left her paralyzed. In facing her new reality she felt a deep aspiration to grow spiritually and to be more loving. She now sees those two aspirations as one and the same. Join an intimate circle with Pat Benincasa in conversation with Ellen this Thursday: We Create Our Own Reality. { more }

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April 26, 2021

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Radical Joy For Hard Times

“Radical Joy for Hard Times is a worldwide community of people dedicated to bringing meaning, beauty, and value to places that have been damaged by human or natural acts. Through its online community and annual Global Earth Exchange event, Radical Joy uplifts and inspires values of relationship, community, ARTivism, and presence. Anyone can do the Radical Joy practice, which at its core invites us to share our sorrow or gratitude for places that have fallen on hard times. Founder Trebbe Johnson is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earths Broken Places and 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty. Here she shares more about how Radical Joy invites us to spend time in wounded places: exposing our hearts to difficult feelings of loss and guilt; listening to the land and to one another; and opening ourselves to possibilities for finding and creating beauty.” { read more }

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Participate in the 12th annual Global Earth Exchange in June and join others around the world in making beauty for a hurt place. { more }

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April 25, 2021

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They Sang with a Thousand Tongues

“Might I venture to say that our most compelling imperative today–if one is permitted to speak in those ways–is to reclaim the thickness of our tongues and learn the names and faces of our neighbours; it is to realize that our worldview is just a tittle in a never-ending sentence; it is to see that there are more ways to learn than school and polished degrees could ever accommodate and more ways to live than could be captured in a Facebook post. The imperative is to recognize that our theories of change have to change and that urgency is not always a function of increased effort and logical coherence. We must reacquaint ourselves with allies that cannot be seen, too subtle for the modern eye, and forgotten human capacities that are wondrous beyond compare, too outrageous for rational thought. We must recognize that our crises emerge from clinging too tightly to a single story, from drinking out of a single drying wellspring while others flow unattended. This recognition also implies that there are no convenient ‘others,’ no convenient enemies, and that we are the systems we oppose. It means admitting that we don’t know the answers, talk less of the questions — and that’s okay.” Bayo Akomolafe tells a story of western values in this thought-provoking piece. { read more }

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Learn more about Akomolafe’s work and check out more of his writing here. { more }

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April 24, 2021

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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end…Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance while planting a garden between an old lighthouse and a new nuclear plant on a barren shingled shore. Jarman is one of the artists whom Olivia Laing profiles and celebrates in Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (public library) — her superb collection of meditations on art, activism, and our search for meaning, drawing on the lives of artists whose vision has changed the way we see the world, ourselves, and others.” Maria Popova shares more. { read more }

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April 23, 2021

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Friend of the Water

“Above a clear, rocky stream, a tiny green tree frog perches on the belly of a leaf. Turning its minute snout toward the water, the frog lets out three chirps in the dark, struggling to make itself known. The act of naming is never a discovery, but a description of what always was there, a sound connected to a thought in time. The heart within the translucent chest of the tiny frog by the stream beats with blood dating back 300 million years, long before the first utterance of human language. And until recently, it survived, like 86 percent of terrestrial life, without a scientific name, unable to break through what taxonomists refer to as the Linnean shortfall.” Science writer Natalie Middleton shares more. { read more }

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What is the meaning of your name, and the story behind it? Reflect on what, and who it connects you to.

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