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June 22, 2021

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Donella Meadows: Dancing with Systems

“We can never fully understand our world, not in the way our reductionistic science has led us to expect. Our science itself, from quantum theory to the mathematics of chaos, leads us into irreducible uncertainty. For any objective other than the most trivial, we can’t optimize; we do’nt even know what to optimize. We cant keep track of everything. We can’t find a proper, sustainable relationship to nature, each other, or the institutions we create, if we try to do it from the role of omniscient conqueror. For those who stake their identity on the role of omniscient conqueror, the uncertainty exposed by systems thinking is hard to take. If you can’t understand, predict, and control, what is there to do?” Influential environmentalist, farmer and writer Donella Meadows explores this question in one of her many, thought-provoking pieces here. { read more }

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June 21, 2021

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Listening to the Language of the Birds

“When bird language entered my life, I felt that a new sense had been grafted into me. Bird voices opened a fresh dimension of sensory experience. This expansion drew me into stories of my home in unexpected ways, revealing ecological rhythms and connections, stimulating my curiosity, and suffusing me with a sense of belonging. The practice of listening to other species is the original ‘augmented reality.’ In opening our minds to the language of species, we experience connection and meaning that far transcend anything offered by electronic simulacra.” David George Haskell shares five potent doorways into the language of the birds. { read more }

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For more inspiration, read Haskell’s essay, “The Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging.”

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June 20, 2021

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The Nightingale’s Song

“Living in England with a very strange secularity within our folk repertoire has allowed me to explore what a sacred spiritual form of practice might be with these birds and how they might enable a re-enchantment. I feel like nature is my spiritual leader in this respect and the nightingale is my imam at the top of that tower calling the prayer out.” In this interview, which weaves conversation, song, and the music of nightingales, folk singer Sam Lee shares more about his collaboration with nightingales. { read more }

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Hear part of an extraordinary duet between a cellist and the nightingales that was broadcast in 1924 by BBC radio. { more }

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June 19, 2021

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The Wanting Memories Project

We have all lost someone we love and wondered how our lives could go on without them–without their touch, their encouragement and their wisdom. In this song, composer Ysaye Barnwell gives voice to our deepest longings to remember our departed loved ones and to find the strength to carry their deepest lessons into our lives now. “Songs have intention in themselves but when we sing together, we define who we are,” says Ysaye Barnwell, who is also a professor, an activist and a 30 year member of Sweet Honey in the Rock vocal ensemble. Her love of music has brought a diversity of people together to sing with the voice of community and helped them find the power to work for healing and social change in the world. { read more }

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Recall your loved one’s favorite song and sing a line or two to remember them, then light a candle here to honor the memory. { more }

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June 18, 2021

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What Critically Ill Kids Can Teach Us

“In 2013, Shay Beider accompanied an anxious little boy into the office of Dr. Fayez Ghishan, the Physician in Chief and a pediatric gastroenterologist at Diamond Childrens Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. The boy was soon to undergo an endoscopy, an invasive scope to examine the digestive tract. Such procedures could be traumatic for children because they required an IV placement; nurses often had to chase children down the hall and administer a shot to sedate them. So Beider asked Dr. Ghishan if she might try Integrative Touch Therapy on the boy, one of the many services she was pioneering through the nonprofit organization she founded, Integrative Touch for Kids (ITK). Within minutes, the boy was calm. Nearly asleep, in fact. “Oh my God,” Dr. Ghishan remarked, “you need to do whatever you do for all of my patients!” { read more }

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Join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Shay Beider. RSVP info and more details here. { more }

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June 17, 2021

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The Third Harmony

In this short film made by the Metta Center for Nonviolence, veteran activists make clear the need for nonviolence on a worldwide scale at this critical stage in human evolution–not just to solve problems in an isolated crisis but as a way of life that can change the world for all of us. According to Dr. Bernard LaFayette, founder of the Center for Nonviolence & Peace studies, the challenge for each of us is “how to put love into action in a way that you maintain your self respect but you elicit respect from others.” The question is, if love always wins, then how do we get there? This film shows how living nonviolently with love is a journey of learning and transformation into our untapped human potential.” { read more }

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Read one article on nonviolence from this list to discover how to be an “artist with your humanity” in your own life. { more }

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June 16, 2021

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Melanie DeMore: Sending You Light

Singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore has a captivating voice– a voice that blends her original music with African American folk music, spirituals, and ballads. Through her music and catalytic presence DeMore has uplifted and unified diverse audiences. She has been called in to sing at the bedside of newborns as well as the dying. She has taught and performed in schools, prisons, coffee houses and concert halls. Her program called Sound Awareness has touched many lives across the USA, Canada, Cuba and New Zealand. “Sending You Light,” is a powerful, heartfelt offering from DeMore that has brought solace to tens of thousands of people in these uncertain times. Listen to it here. { read more }

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Share “Sending You Light” with someone in your own life who might benefit from its messages of healing and compassion.

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