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Prayer for the Earth: An Indigenous Response To These Times

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Jan 20, 2022

Prayer for the Earth: An Indigenous Response To These Times

In his lifetime Stan Rushworth, an elder of Cherokee descent who was raised by his grandfather, has seen a river die, animals disappear, and the proliferation of box stores. The devastation of climate change is not new to him – his elders have been telling him about it all of his life. The traditional indigenous wisdom that is needed now is looking at how indigenous populations have managed to survive a 95% population reduction through destruction and genocide. He calls on us all to come back to right relationship, to be sorrowful for what is happening, because without this we have lost our humanity. And yet we cannot stop with the sorrow and tears because "there’s too much work to be done" and we must figure out together how to do that work.

Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality

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January 20, 2022

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Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One’s work should be a salute to life.

– Pablo Casals –

Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality

“Long before there was Yo-Yo Ma, there was Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor Pablo Casals (December 29, 1876-October 22, 1973), regarded by many as the greatest cellist of all time. The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.N. Peace Medal for his unflinching dedication to justice and his lifelong stance against oppression and dictatorship, Casals was as much an extraordinary artist as he was an extraordinary human being — a generous and kind man of uncommon compassion and goodness of heart, a passionate spirit in love with life, and an unflinching idealist. And yet, like many exceptional people, he cultivated his character through an early brush with suffering.” Maria Popova shares a window into Casal’s creative vitality and relationship to work. { read more }

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