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January 14, 2020

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Micah Mortali: Rewilding

“Micah Mortali is the director of the Kripalu School, and a longtime wilderness guide. With Sounds True, he has published Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Micah about humanity’s growing disconnection from the earth and how “rewilding” can help slow that trend. They talk about rewilding both as individuals and as part of whole ecosystems. Micah also shares the story of an intense, revelatory trail encounter with a bear and comments on the “species loneliness” of urban environments. Mulling the sense of grief they have for humankind’s effects on the environment, Tami and Micah consider how modern people can grapple with being in exile from the natural world. Finally, they discuss the barriers many have to reentering nature, as well as ways to initiate your own rewilding experience no matter where you are.” { read more }

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Read more by Micah Mortali here: “Five Symptoms of Nature Deficit Disorder and How Mindfulness Can Help.” { more }

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January 13, 2020

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Kahlil Gibran on Befriending Time

“There is something odd about this notion of time as property. We are asked to give things time; we speak of taking time time off of something, time toward something. But how do we give or take this fine-grained sand that slips through the fingers the moment we try to cup it? Perhaps time is not so much the substance in the hand as the substance of the hand.” Maria Popova explores Kahlil Gibran’s reflections on time in this post. { read more }

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How do you relate to time in your own life?

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January 12, 2020

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Why I Run

“It is just after 4:00 am. I was dreaming about Missoula, running around Mount Sentinel just before dawn. I threw on a blue hoodie and began reciting in my sleep why I run.” Inspired by Terry Tempest William’s evocative reflections in “Why I Write,” long-distance runner and writer Nicholas Triolo offers this lovely stream of consciousness exploration of why he runs. { read more }

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Is there a practice in your own life that serves you in multi-dimensional ways, and that ‘lays bare your soul’? Consider writing your own reflection on the role it plays in your life.

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January 11, 2020

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Orion’s 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade

“From 2010 to the present, Orion Magazine has produced over fifty issues full of personal essays and science reporting, poetry and book reviews, photography and art, all responding to the most pressing issues facing the planet. Here are the 25 most-read Orion articles published within the last decade.” { read more }

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Reflect on the poems, books, articles or films that have particularly impacted you over the last decade.

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January 10, 2020

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The Reason I Jump: A Book by a 13-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“The thirteen-year-old author of this book invites you, his reader, to imagine a daily life in which your faculty of speech is taken away. Explaining that you’re hungry, or tired, or in pain, is now as beyond your powers as a chat with a friend. I’d like to push the thought-experiment a little further. Now imagine that after you lose your ability to communicate, the editor-in-residence who orders your thoughts walks out without notice. The chances are that you never knew this mind-editor existed, but now that he or she has gone, you realize too late how the editor allowed your mind to function for all these years. A dam-burst of ideas, memories, impulses and thoughts is cascading over you, unstoppably. Your editor controlled this flow, diverting the vast majority away, and recommending just a tiny number for your conscious consideration. But now you’re on your own. Now your mind is a room where twenty radios, all tuned to different stations, are blaring out voices and music. The radios have no off-switches or volume controls, the room you’re in has no door or window, and relief will come only when you’re too exhausted to stay awake.” Writer David Mitchell shares more in this introduction to his son Naoki Higashida’s extraordinary first book, “The Reason I Jump” { read more }

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For more inspiration read or listen to this NPR interview with Temple Grandin. { more }

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January 9, 2020

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Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening

“Listening, Erich Fromm argues, is ‘is an art like the understanding of poetry’ and, like any art, has its own rules and norms. Drawing on his half-century practice as a therapist, Fromm offers six such guidelines for mastering the art of unselfish understanding. { read more }

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For more inspiration read, “A Deeper Listening,” the transcript of an interview with Myron Eshowky. { more }

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January 8, 2020

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One Love

At five minutes to midnight on June 14, 2018, about 800 people waited to enter Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum. Jews, Muslims and Christians, young and old, most of them strangers to one another, they were forgoing a night’s sleep for the chance to sing Bob Marley’s “One Love” in three languages and three-part harmony as a show of unity from Israel. { read more }

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