Tragedy and Transcendence

James speaks with the voice of a poet, in his April 24 comment, responding to my last week’s post.
His closing paragraph:
So, how do we find our way, as individuals and as a species, between fully acknowledging the great losses that have taken place and will take place, working toward a better world as best we […]

My Faith

A question that comes to me is, what kind of faith is it that you have, or hope to have, in this work or elsewhere?
Is it a confidence in some positive outcome, eventually?
Is it “faithfulness”, or a willingness to act as your truest and deepest impulses lead you, even if you don’t have confidence in […]

Accepting the Darkness

OK, so I’m in a funk.
That’s probably the right place for me to be.
And I guess I’m going to write about it.
Industrial Civilization is going to be in a funk, too, in my humble opinion, and I’m claiming
“It’s about time,”
so I guess it’s appropriate to share my funk-process here.
This is not new ground for me.
And […]

An Open Moment, a Divided Self

Dear friends,
This is an open moment for me, with this website successfully announced and underway.
I dedicate myself to harmonic resonance with Gaia.

(But, of course, it’s never simple. [And what follows may not be easy reading.])
I think my next steps are to focus on Quaker Community Forest (but simultaneously I am suspicious of myself).
[Begin digression to […]