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Archive for March 20, 2025
This week’s inspiring video: From Prison to Purpose Through Wildland Firefighting
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Video of the Week
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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From Prison to Purpose Through Wildland Firefighting
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| While asking incarcerated people to fight fires has been viewed with some controversy by outsiders, this film provides another viewpoint from those who are on the frontlines fighting fires. When wildfires rage in California and in other states, incarcerated people are often asked to step into the danger of fighting the flames. This is dangerous, underpaid work, but it also creates a shift for many incarcerated people who gain power and agency by seeing themselves as having something of value to offer to society after they made a mistake by committing a crime. They say they gained a sense of freedom and purpose in life that would otherwise have been spent behind bars. TED Fellow Royal Ramey was one of them. He shares the story of how doing public service in prison inspired him to co-found the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people become wildland firefighters — and find purpose along the way. |
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Nature’s intelligence wants to live through us…
– Gail Bradbrook –
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On Community: The More-Than-Human World
Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the more-than-human world, finding ease in its familiar safety. People exist in the background; my foreground is the present moment. Never empty. Always a canvas—Butterflies. Dried leaves. Twigs I like to hold. Worm castings brushing my heels. A bird call.” She breathes better. In fact, she says, “I am breathed,” in the way she breathed “a quiet sigh before I knew I needed one.” She also feels invited: “A twig. A dying lizard. The first summer rain. Everything calls, if I listen.” Tess seeks to understand “the nature of invitations in the human world too.” “Through the more-than-human world, I find the safety to look again—at the people who matter to me. I cannot live without notions. I cannot live without friends.” { read more }
Be The Change
Accept an invitation to become a student of one life form in your more-than-human world – bird, plant, bee… What is the intelligence they share with you? |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 