Sangha of Auspicious Companions

November 6, 2022

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The Link Between Landscape and Diaspora

“My observations of nature sparked adventures into landscape and history, and it was in bearing witness to these injustices that I found language. And observation and description are at the root of bearing witness: it is about saying, in the face of the machinations of power to twist and deny its brutality, this is what I see. It is a simple act, but also a powerful one, for it cuts through facades and illusions to assert what we can plainly see for ourselves. It affirms the truths of our lives.” More in this stunning essay, titled, “How Bearing Witness to Nature Helped Me Delve Into History,” by writer Teow Lim Goh. { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out Goh’s piece, “The Angel Island Poems.” { more }

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November 5, 2022

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Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge on Caretaking

“In 2018, Helena Norberg-Hodge sat down with Wendell Berry for a far-reaching discussion. The two are giants of the local economy movement. Berry is a poet and activist, an author of over forty books–including The Unsettling of America and Home Economics–and a lifelong advocate for ecological health, the beauty of rural life, and small-scale farming. He is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Norberg-Hodge founded Local Futures, which works to renew ecological, social, and spiritual well-being by promoting a systemic shift toward economic localization. She also produced the film The Economics of Happiness and wrote the book Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. She was honored with the Right Livelihood Award for her groundbreaking work in Ladakh.” Read their conversation here. { read more }

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November 4, 2022

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Truth and Reconciliation

Lis Cox, videographer and activist, is on a one woman mission to try to ensure that there is a future for young people. Drawing on successes of protests in the 1960’s and 1970’s, this video inspires young people and people of all ages to unite in protest against climate problems, police brutality and racism. She quotes from the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, saying, “You’re either on the bus, or you’re not.” Her hope is that young people are the ones driving the bus. { read more }

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hat can you do as a young person, or in support of young people, to help the new world to be born?

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November 3, 2022

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Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life

“Merlin Sheldrakes book Entangled Life [1] has rather taken the world by storm since it was published in 2020, appearing on the best-seller lists in both the UK and USA. Subtitled How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, it constitutes a comprehensive overview of our current scientific understanding of fungi, from the extraordinary hidden networks of the wood wide web to their potential to solve our problems of waste disposal. Merlin describes himself as a biologist (he has a PhD from Cambridge University), a musician and keen fermenter. He spoke to Carolyn Markson and John Brown about why this hitherto invisible world of interconnected life is revealing itself to us fascinating world of fungi and its myriad implications. { read more }

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November 2, 2022

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Love Song

“Whether we accept it or not, the land itself is our earliest predecessor, the main character of all our stories, and listening to it, after all, is not a onetime undertaking but a practice.” Chris Dombrowski’s book, “The River You Touch,” begins with a profound and timely question, “What does a meaningful, mindful, sustainable inhabitance on this small planet look like in the anthropocene? What follows is an excerpt from the book. { read more }

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Practice listening to the land today.

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November 1, 2022

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George Saunders on Writing

“As a writer, the work is always particularization to move from mere concept (tree, forest) into specific descriptions that sort of take that thing apart and then cause a new and more intense perception of it to occur within a particular mindstate (usually that of a character). So, what really happens is that you start to dissolve the traditional distinction between the natural and man-made worlds its all natural, in the sense that it all has come to be. And this process of particularization is somehow related to increased tenderness for. Which, in turn, I guess, is the ultimate environmentalism like, a fondness for everything that is, and an enhanced recognition that its actually all one thing, all interconnected, and if we like any of it, wed better feel tenderness for all of it.” Writer George Saunders shares more in this interview. { read more }

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October 31, 2022

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Spirituality, Art and Innocence

“Nothing can be loved at speed, and I think we might be looking at the loss of love in the world due to the increased velocity of ordinary life; the loss of care, skill and attention enough to ensure the health and happiness of each other and the planet earth. It is a baffling problem and governments seem unable to recognize it, or do much about it at present. To put it as a bleak modern metaphor, there may be moments when we feel we are all aboard an airliner being flown into a mountainside by the unstoppable forces of an incomprehensible madness. Now seems like a good time to talk about spirituality, art and innocence.” Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet, Michael Leunig shares more in this keynote address. { read more }

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October 30, 2022

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Their Irrepressible Innocence

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a moist, gray November in my soul; whenever I find myself expecting to be cut off in traffic, to be shortchanged at the store, to hear an ominous clank in the transmission, to catch a cold, to be ludicrously overbilled by the insurance company, to find the library closed early, to endure computer malfunction, to discover the wine sour, to lose my keys, to discover a city of slugs in the cellar, and to find a dead owlet under the cracked front picture window, then I account it high time to get to a kindergarten as fast as I can. There, I sit myself down in a tiny chair, in which I look not unlike a large, hairy, bespectacled, bookish giant, and inquire after the lives and dreams and feats of the small populace, and listen with the most assiduous and ferocious attention, for I find that as few as twenty minutes with people no taller than your belt buckle is enormously refreshing, and gloriously educational…” Brian Doyle shares more in this beguiling piece. { read more }

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Sit down with a child today, ask them a few sincere questions, and see what wisdom might find its way from them to you.

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