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May 12, 2022

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Iyore (I Return)

“My name is Imuetinyan Ugiagbe and I am a visual storyteller who happens to be visually impaired. The title of the piece I am sharing with you is Iyore (pronounced E YO RAY), which means I return in the Edo language. When I take a trip, I rarely think of whether I would make it home safely. But, all of that changed on the 13th of June, 2020.” Imuetinyan Ugiagbe shares more in this moving piece. { read more }

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May 11, 2022

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Resisting Revenge to Embrace Humanity

After a Palestinian sniper killed ten Israeli soldiers including her son, who was active in the peace movement, Robi Damelin’s first words were: “Do not take revenge in the name of my son.” Somewhere below the grief, she knew even in that moment that exacting vengeance would merely fuel the cycle of violence. In her pain, Robi couldn’t bear “business as usual” and closed down her PR office. She soon intersected with the Parents Circle-Families Forum, a grassroots group of Israeli and Palestinian families who lost loved ones to the conflict. The group became her refuge and path to self-discovery and activism through its focus on dialogue, mutual understanding, and reconciliation, and she is now PCFF’s spokesperson. The following post shares more, and includes the moving letter Damelin wrote to the sniper who killed her son. { read more }

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Join an Awakin Call with Robi Damelin this Saturday. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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May 9, 2022

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Becoming Who You Are Meant to Be

“In this podcast, Dr. Bolen joins Sounds True founder Tami Simon to reflect on her many years as a writer, teacher, and activist, and how doing our soul work becomes the path to self-actualization, connection, and contribution throughout our lives. They also discuss our innate capacity for love and awe; becoming a whole-brain person; speaking up as a key aspect of individuation; gratitude and appreciation; the dandelion effect, or how seeds of beneficial ideas are carried to fertile ground; navigating liminal times; the predicament of just doing time with our lives; connecting with loved ones weve lost; becoming more familiar with your dark side of the moon; the metaphor of the millionth circle; and more.” { read more }

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Read Bolen’s poem, “Untapped Source of Peace,” and learn more about her work here. { more }

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May 8, 2022

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What We Nurture

“A few years ago, Krista Tippett hosted an event in Detroit — a city in flux — on the theme of raising children. The conversation that resulted with the Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein has been a companion to her and to many from that day forward. Here it is again as an offering for Mothers Day in a world still and again in flux, and where the matter of raising new human beings feels as complicated as ever before. Sylvia gifts us this teaching: that nurturing children’s inner lives can be woven into the fabric of our days and that nurturing ourselves is also good for the children and everyone else in our lives.” { read more }

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Honor the nurturers in your life today — and remember to include yourself.

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May 7, 2022

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A Thing of Beauty

“When the artist James Turrell was a young boy, his grandmother gave him some advice about what to do in the meetings they would attend as a Quaker family: “go inside, and greet the light”. Her words appear to have struck something of a chord. Today, Turrell is virtually synonymous with light art and his work is often discussed in terms of engendering sublime experiences and representing a spiritual ‘inner’ light, as well as in terms of the science of light and our perception of it. This article describes one of his few permanent exhibits, where crowds gather at dusk every Monday and Saturday at a cemetery in Berlin to witness a mesmerising interplay of light and colour.” { read more }

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Check out “Greeting the Light,” an interview with James Turrell here. { more }

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May 6, 2022

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Perpetual Motion

Don’t miss this busy, vibrant woman who is continually active on her farm, doing the chores, loving the animals (she looks into the eyes of each one every day). Everyone wants to know when she will stop, but she says never! Even if they put her in a coffin she says she will stand up again and start walking. Why? Because while every day may not be fun, there’s always a reason to get up and be going — to make every day count. Take in her rich life and find your own riches. { read more }

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Maggie Fourie says the mountains and rivers are in her blood. Watch how another family thrives on their remote Island of Plenty. { more }

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May 5, 2022

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Ancient Green: Moss, Climate and Deep Time

“Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of ‘Braiding Sweetgrass,’)explores how mosses–ancient beings who transformed the world–teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.

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May 4, 2022

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Small Kindnesses

“Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection,” is an anthology that includes poems by Ross Gay, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. The poems within it urge readers in these polarized times to “move past the negativity that often fills the airwaves, and to embrace the ordinary moments of kindness and connection that fill our days.” What follows is one of the poems from this collection, titled, “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Lameris.

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Practice perpetual kindness today.

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