The Dam Issue(s)
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.
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The Road to Good Drawings
“I could never draw something like that.” My niece was seven. When I first started taking my artwork seriously, my sister asked me to make an animal drawing for her birthday. She had seen a zebra drawing of mine and wanted something similar for herself….
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The Living Earth, Part 1: “The Gaia Hypothesis”
Something shifted in me the day my 8th grade Earth Science teacher projected our blue marble planet floating in space on the big screen. I immediately and stunningly knew the Earth was a living presence—a she, not an it. Years later, in college, I majored in Environmental Science….
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The Living Earth, Part 2: “Earth’s Improbable Balance”
As Lovelock began his work, he asked a revolutionary question: How has this planet remained hospitable to life for billions of years? The data he gathered told him we shouldn’t be here, life shouldn’t be here, and yet—here we are. Not by luck, and not…
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The Living Earth, Part 3: “Mother Earth”
In the first two parts of this series, we’ve explored Lovelock’s discovery: the Earth is alive and automatically sustaining the conditions that allow life to exist here. Within the bounds of science, this planet is a biophysical mechanism, a brilliant system of blind feedback loops…
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Trees Are Individual Beings
In response to the question, “How do you paint a tree?” John Carlson wrote a beautiful section on the need to understand trees. “Know your trees, their nature, their growth, their movement; understand that they are conscious, living things, with tribulations and desires not wholly…
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A More Dignified Way of Life
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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Finding Inspiration in the Home Depot Parking Lot
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…
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Where Did the Goddess Go?
It seems she was usurped by the written word. The Great Goddess reigned supreme for 30,000 years of documented human existence, she lived in the hearts of both men and women—they worshiped her as…
This is Part 4 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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The Equinox Has a Gift for You
The equinox arrives twice a year, and most of us barely notice. We might acknowledge it as the first day of fall or spring, but we miss the deeper meaning. Indigenous cultures have always known that these times are more than just marks on the…
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The Great Mother and the Fall
If you’re born into a system, and so are those who raise you and live around you, it’s very difficult to recognize the system—until someone finds all the research on the time before the system existed, and then…
This is Part 3 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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The Master and His Emissary
Years of spiritual work and meditation had left me with one burning question: How do I move beyond the ego, so I can live from my soul—know it, hear it, follow it? Much to my surprise, I didn’t find the answer to my…
This is Part 2 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
