I have been participating in Sweat Lodges since about the age of 8 or 9 years old. My mother, though not by blood of the First Nations, has been recognized by Indigenous elders as an “honorary member” of tribes based on her extensive healing work and embodiment of indigenous spirituality and traditions. Despite this, I [...]
A new program is being set up in England by which children from underserved households will be given access to free instruments and classical music training. The program is an echo of the Venezuelan project, “El Sistema”, which focused on providing musical training to children from some of the poorest slums in Venezuela as an [...]
Imagine experiencing nature and the whole of life without words. Just as you paint, swim, feel, hike, or ski without words. Look around your room and just perceive it. Now look around the room again and try to name things as you seem them.
Your mind can perceive instantly while it has to work hard to [...]
Sharon Rempel is an environmental activist and organic agronomist in the heritage seed community of Canada and works to reintroduce heritage varieties of ‘landrace’ wheat onto farms. Old varieties grow well without high inputs. Sharon’s community development work and writings deal with developing a more ‘feminine’ paradigm for agriculture and bringing back ’seed [...]
I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
I spent last week fretting about the global financial meltdown, and what it really means. I kept thinking about Zimbabwe, and what it must be like to be living there, where the system really has melted down, and people haven’t got any food. For some reason, everywhere I went, I fell into conversations with [...]
The most well-known and celebrated harvest festival, Thanksgiving, is such a great holiday: families and friends coming together to give thanks for a bountiful feast. To my understanding, Thanksgiving originated from Native Americans helping the pilgrims through their first winters, by teaching them grow their own food.
Some of the first crops they learned to [...]
Scientists have shown that in order to keep global warming and climate change from reaching truly devastating levels every country needs to lower its carbon output by 27% each year. That means starting now. Kyoto II, a plan to be decided on at meetings in Copenhagen next autumn, has the potential to completely change the [...]
That’s the title of a PhD dissertation by Elaine Aaron. Here’s what she says:
Archetypes, as Jung said, have dual aspects. The archetype of forceful big is the counterpart, or opposite, of the archetype of delicate small. Once forceful big enters the scene, there is no more space for delicate small. It gets crushed.
This observation alone [...]
I’m writing this on Tuesday morning. I feel in my bones that Obama will win. I don’t think this would be worth a bean if the GOP wanted this election, but I don’t think they do–I think that’s why they allowed the McCain/Palin campaign to represent them–so I don’t think they will rig the vote. [...]
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