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June 15, 2021

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On Barry Lopez: Now That It’s Come to This

“Once, before I knew him well, I asked Barry Lopez the earliest thing he could remember. Without missing a beat, the most widely traveled and sophisticated spiritual seeker in North American letters in a century–a writer of mystical sensitivity and grace, who’d been up to his armpits in snow, tracking wolves in Alaska, and who charted the migration of snow geese across Canada, who listened to Indigenous peoples across the globe, learning from their knowledge systems, especially in the Arctic–spoke at length about water. His life began, Lopez said, with water.” John Freeman shares more in this moving essay. { read more }

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June 14, 2021

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Probable Impossibilities

“In Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings, the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sieves four centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Kepler’s revolutionary laws of planetary motion to the thousands of habitable exoplanets discovered by NASAs Kepler mission, to estimate that even with habitable planets orbiting one tenth of all stars, the faction of living matter in the universe is about one-billionth of one-billionth: If all the matter in the universe were the Gobi desert, life would be but a single grain of sand.” Maria Popova shares more. { read more }

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June 13, 2021

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Her Art Informed Science: Maria Sibylla Merian

“I am an insect ecologist and a field biologist; Maria Sibylla Merian’s work forms the very foundations of my discipline. Yet I am ashamed to confess that until relatively recently I was unaware of the magnitude of Merian’s contribution to biology. It has only been in the last few decades that recognition for her scientific contributions has had a resurgence.” Learn more about this remarkable woman whose art informed science here. { read more }

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Learn more about “The Girl Who Drew Butterflies,” a beautiful book written for young readers, about Merian’s life and contributions. { more }

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June 12, 2021

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How to Write Love

“Stranger Care is Sarah Sentilless heartbreaking, heart-expanding account of her relationship with her foster daughter, Coco–although saying that is a bit like saying Walden is a book about a pond. It is, but ponds are just the beginning. It is, and yet, well never look at ponds the same way again. After Stranger Care, Ill never look at mothers the same way again. Or daughters. Or parenting. Or caregiving. This book is about loving Coco, and letting her go. Its a book about loving her birth mother, Evelyn. It’s a book about the systems that structure our care and how fallible they are; how we might care for one another in more expansive ways that reach beyond the boundaries of biology and the nuclear family, even beyond the species; how we might learn from the systems of caregiving that sustain the natural world all around us.” { read more }

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Reach beyond the boundaries of biology to care for someone or something today. Read more by Sarah Sentilles here. { more }

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June 11, 2021

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The Art of Weaving

Being a home weaver is a revolutionary act. Jessica Green shares her life as a weaver, “remembering the importance and sacredness of cloth”; and as a homesteading anti-capitalist entrepreneur. “Being a weaver and a homesteader,” Green says, “is a lifestyle that’s based both in remembering and trailblazing.” Follow her as she takes wool from sheep to woven cloth and explains her choices to “live with the yoke of that responsibility and help other people joyously carry that yoke”. { read more }

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What “yoke of remembrance” are you willing to carry forward in your own lifetime? How can you support others in theirs?

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June 10, 2021

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Four Stages of Groundedness

“The ground is both a metaphor and a felt sense. As a metaphor, it means to be in touch with reality. As a felt sense, it refers to feeling our center of gravity low in the belly and experiencing a deep silence, stability, and connection with the whole of life. Feeling grounded does not require contact with the earth; it can happen anywhere and anytime — even when we’re flat on our backs in a rowboat.” John Prendergast shares more on the four stages of groundedness. { read more }

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Join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with John Prendergast, “Archaeologist of the Heart.” More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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June 9, 2021

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7 Principles of Meaningful Relationships for Servant Leaders

“A company is a collection of people working toward a shared goal that they couldn’t otherwise do on their own. In essence, the foundation of work is relationships.
However, often when we are stuck, especially in work, it is because we interact with others transactionally instead of engaging with them, human to human. And when we are unhappy at work, we might blame it on someone else but the root of the discontent is often within us.” In the following piece, Jeff Riddle shares seven principles for building meaningful connections. { read more }

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June 8, 2021

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First Passage

“What does not appear there but is equally present, somehow, is Antarctica. Antarctica of permanent daylight come summer and permanent night during the season when the sea ice grows. Antarctica, that no human being had ever seen just over two hundred years ago. Antarctica, the continent where only eleven people have been born. Antarctica of glacial uncertainty. Antarctica, humming 9,093 miles south of my home in Providence, now acutely felt. Antarctica, and, more specifically, the policies that shape it, place their icy hands around my present and tell me how to act. Wait, they say, one full year.” Elizabeth Rush writes of a journey toward motherhood in an age of glacial loss. { read more }

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What might you do today to narrow the distance between what is, and what could and should be?

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