Forgiveness Archives • Heather Lyn Mann

Boy, You’re Gonna Carry that Weight a Long Time

March 7, 2014 by heatherlynmann

I heard this story some weeks back. As a spiritual ecologist, it lingers in my thoughts. A motivational speaker stood in front of a room full of people holding a half-full glass of water at the end of her outstretched arm. She asked the group, "how heavy is this glass?"…

#RadicalTransformation for #EnvironmentalActivists and #Buddhist Practitioners

October 2, 2013 by heatherlynmann

Each of us--as children of Mother Earth--can benefit from a spiritual relationship with the natural world. Countless studies disclose the mental and physical benefits that emerge from time in nature. But two groups are especially ripe to have that relationship be intentional and radically transformative: environmental activists and Buddhist practitioners.…

Plums

June 8, 2013 by heatherlynmann

Here is a poem by William Carlos Williams. It speaks beautifully of the guilt of privilege and the hunger for forgiveness. I have eaten the plums in the ice box, which you were probably saving for breakfast. They were delicious, So sweet and so cold. Forgive me.

Heather Lyn Mann

Boy, You’re Gonna Carry that Weight a Long Time

#RadicalTransformation for #EnvironmentalActivists and #Buddhist Practitioners

Plums

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