The smell of salty air and the curve of the roads under thick green canopies of wet leaves feels deeply familiar to me…like family. Like the ones that held me when I was a baby. These trees, these beaches, these ponds and marshes know me and I know them. Whenever I visit here it feels … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Cultural Transformation
Lassoing Ideas
My mind is always on… …paying attention to everything that’s going on and noticing the connections. When I look around at our changing world and what we’re all going through I can’t help but feel the stories of personal and cultural transformation hiding behind and underneath the surface that’s presented. The subtle play of cause … Continue Reading →
The Return of Spirit
Stop what you’re doing just for a moment and see if you can feel your breath moving in and out of your body…if you can feel your heart beating in your chest. Can you feel the LIFEforce in you? The energy that keeps all your bodily systems running. This lifeforce is more than a biological … Continue Reading →
The Need for Necessity
The people of the Arctic learn to make cozy and perfectly waterproof boots out of sealskin because they NEED them. The people of the Amazon learn to make medicines out of the plants to cure disease and clear away parasites because they NEED to. And people all over the world have learned to gather in … Continue Reading →
OUTing our Cultural Assumptions
Culture is something we take for granted…it’s the water we swim in…the paradigm of reality that we can hardly even see because it’s all we know. It’s what we’re born into…the worldview and reality that get passed down from generation to generation. It’s actually a bundle of assumptions about the world…a collection of ideas, expectations, … Continue Reading →
What’s it gonna take?
When the newsfeed and broadcasts get flooded with images and stories of violence, oppression, injustice and pollution…do you ever think to yourself… “What’s it gonna take?” What’s it gonna take for us to change our ways? To realize, once and for all, that this culture of disconnection and disrespect is a dead end street…to wake … Continue Reading →
Turning Inspiration into Action (with Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah)
Do you ever get all fired up after listening to an inspirational TED talk or watching a documentary about this pivotal time we’re living in? Do you get passionate and inspired and feel the energy of change moving through you? And then, in the face of your daily tasks, what happens to all that enthusiasm? … Continue Reading →
Arise…ing
Arise…ing in a whole new way… pivotal moments opening doors of being.living.perceiving with greater capacities of wow and now…of hope and faith… of the YESness that feeds the starlight fire of sovereign beings intimately interwoven in the miraculous web of magical life. Arising…….. Lifting our hearts and songs and dance UP to the Great … Continue Reading →
the remembering
after hours and days and weeks of driving i was almost there i cracked the window against the pure black night and a stream of crystal cool mountain air poured into the car i drank it in with my whole body and relaxed all my bones aaaahh…i was home not to my house. Not to … Continue Reading →
the forgetting
the wild plains got lost under the franchiseable American Dream greed paved the land and spread the patented seed where once the mighty buffalo roamed and now the flash and glare of digital billboards and neon signs screams out “buy now” against a sky where gazillions of stars are silently shining…invisible to the naked eye … Continue Reading →
