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The shock of the Ukraine war in 2022 hit me hard. I remember waking up one February morning to the grim realization that the world had fundamentally shifted while I slept. Vladimir Putin sent his troops across the border into another country’s sovereign territory and…
You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.” – Chief Seattle
This is Part 1 of the Rivers As Relatives series exploring our relationship with water, salmon, and nature’s rights.
You know the feeling — that subtle but persistent tug when someone does something nice for you. A friend buys you lunch and suddenly you’re planning another lunch so you can pay next time. Someone invites you to a party and you can’t stop thinking…
Wild salmon once coursed through rivers across all of northern Europe. They surged up American rivers throughout New England and the Pacific Northwest…
This is Part 2 of the Rivers As Relatives series exploring our relationship with water, salmon, and nature’s rights.
At one point in my life, all I could do was read books on spirituality. I couldn’t find any other reason to get out of bed every day. So for seven months straight, all I did was go to work and come home and read….
In January 1922, representatives from seven states gathered to divide up the Colorado River’s water. They had a choice: listen to the science that warned them, or move forward with the numbers that promised them everything they wanted. Their decision would determine the fate of…
Rachel Carson has forever changed the way I see the ocean, and I don’t know how she did it. I was going to give you some passages depicting the ocean as a mother: who unceasingly circulates her bodily currents across distant shores and open seas,…
“Oh, now I see… that’s the left brain.”
I had just finished one of the exercises in Betty Edwards’ classic drawing book. Her instructions were to take a Picasso drawing, turn it upside down, and then copy it….
This is Part 1 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
It’s no longer just about net-zero carbon emissions. Now it’s about net-zero carbon emissions AND climate restoration. That’s right, our new goal is to restore our climate to CO2 levels that will allow future humans to evolve and flourish. And we’re going to do it by…
I can still hear my riding instructor’s voice as I started to trot for the first time. “Head up,” she called out. “Look where you want to go.” She told me later she had to give that same instruction to all of her beginning riders….
The Home Depot cart return was a mess. Shopping carts strewn everywhere, jutting out at odd angles, threatening to escape back into the parking lot. Evidence of modern life’s haste and indifference. I pushed my cart in and spent an extra second clicking it into…
For weeks after I read this book, I couldn’t speak about it without crying. Not because I was sad about what we did to the Native American people—I was, but that’s not why. I felt personally devastated that I hadn’t…
This is Part 5 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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