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November 13, 2023

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Telling is Listening

“Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed. Candor and clarity go a long way in fertilizing the soil, but in the end there is always a degree of unpredictability in the climate of communication even the warmest intention can be met with frost. Yet something impels us to hold these possibilities in both hands and go on surrendering to the beauty and terror of conversation, that ancient and abiding human gift. And the most magical thing, the most sacred thing, is that whichever the outcome, we end up having transformed one another in this vulnerable-making process of speaking and listening.” Maria Popova’s post on Ursula Le Guin and the magic of real human conversation shares mores. { read more }

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For more inspiration check out this post from The Marginalian on Creativity & Consciousness. { more }

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November 12, 2023

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Becoming an Active Operator of Your Nervous System

“Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician and consultant specializing in using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honor the role of the autonomic nervous system. In this podcast, Tami Simon converses with Deb Dana to offer listeners a practical understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how we can begin to decode the language of our body for better health and better relationships. Tami and Deb also discuss the dorsal, sympathetic, and ventral states of our nervous system; the gifts of becoming anchored in ventral; neuroception, your nervous systems way of taking in information to assess your safety; curiosity and the capacity for self-reflection; the importance of self-care; co-regulation as a biological imperative; why self-regulation is especially critical for therapists and other helping professionals; music and nature as healing resources; the practice of self-compassion as a means of getting our anchor back; and more.” { read more }

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More inspiration from Deb Dana here. { more }

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November 11, 2023

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Educating for the End of the World (As We Know It)

“As we consider the field of education for sustainability, and move into an ever-more-uncertain future, questions arise: What are we sustaining? Why? Just what do we mean by “sustainability” anyway? Perhaps instead of asking ‘What is worth sustaining?’ we might begin with the question, ‘What do we need to let go of?’ Most prescriptions for sustainable culture and education for sustainability presuppose a continuance, in some (perhaps modified) form, of a world in which people in Western industrialized countries continue to enjoy the comforts and prosperity of modernization (a process) and modernity (a social system), the seeds of which “sprouted in the form of a radically new approach to human inquiry in what we now call ‘science’ and the transformation of that science into a marriage with a dynamic technology”–driven largely by the extraction of non-renewable energy stored in the body of the earth for millions of years…” { read more }

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When you consider the question, “What do we need to let go of?” what comes up for you?

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November 10, 2023

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Overcomer

This short film about self love by Hannah Grace animates a feeling of unworthiness that many of us have had at some point or another – or maybe most of the time – but we don’t admit it to anyone. This simple and beautiful movie shows how destructive negative messages may become. We can absorb so many unhealthy messages from childhood that end up being reinforced by social media and more. Soon we are chained to an image of ourselves that isn’t true yet feels so real. As we love the child deep within as no one else can, we can discover the freedom to be our true self. { read more }

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Do at least one thing today that nurtures self-worth and self-compassion. When we do this, kindness can spill over into the world around us. Be that change you wish to see in the world.

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November 9, 2023

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The Edge of the Sacred

“The idea of sacredness tends to come up often in my work. What anoints something as sacred? Its a question I often receive as a Din poet talking to audiences across the country. But its a subject I feel I cant talk to, because that kind of esoteric knowledge is unreachable. Not in the sense that I cant learn it, because I can. Its unreachable in the sense that perhaps I am not ready to learn it, or I have not made the right kind of commitments to learning that kind of knowledge. During the Emerging Din Writers Institute, a summer program for creative writing held at Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico, Philmer Bluehouse talked about the three realms of Din knowledge and the ways esoteric knowledge is almost meant to be just beyond our grasp. Because that knowledge unlocks a different coding of reality, a different approach to the world, and its one that has sustained Din thought and lifeway for generations. In the wrong or unprepared hands, the knowledge could backfire. So, instead, I answer knowing what I know based on the stories Ive been told: that a sacred space is anywhere meant for reverence to a realm beyond our current spatial awareness of reality. That this sacred is beyond our three dimensions, maybe even dimensionless. It is the beyond itself.” Poet Jake Skeets shares more… { read more }

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Learn more about Skeets and check out a sampling of his poetry here. { more }

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November 8, 2023

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Cooking Up Connection

“Neighborly get-togethers have seen a steady drop since 1940. But rates of socializing outside the home have risen. We’re now more likely to meet friends at a softball game or a bar than to invite them over for dinner or a barbecue. The “why” behind these trends is less clear, but the reality is stark: we are living in a cultural moment where there is a growing bifurcation between our private home life and our public social life. Could the fact that our efforts to connect happen largely outside our homesseparate and distinct from the epicenter of our livesbe a driver of our widespread feelings of social dislocation? In the month of March, I decided to find out. As part of a year-long personal journey to find ways of strengthening my own sense of community and connection, I challenged myself to host people in my home at least once a week. Four gatherings of friends or neighbors in my home in just 30 days.” Shaylyn Romney Garrett, activist, writer and founder of Project Reconnect shares more in this piece. { read more }

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For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Shaylyn, “From I to We: Building a Nation of Neighbors.” More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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November 7, 2023

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Portholes

Anna Badkhen traces markers left in the Earth from the near and distant past, unspooling the narratives that thread through the imprints we leave on the planet, and what they foretell for the future.

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For more inspiration, check out this collection of Songline Paintings, “Stories Written in the Land.” { more }

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