What’s What
It is nutty to think of nature as fragile and humankind as all-powerful when the reverse is in fact true.
Writting Sample Part 3
Here is the next excerpt from Chapter One, Ocean of Insight, a memoir in the works. You'll find the beginning of the tale in the posting on June 5--H Confused, I drop down the companionway ladder to lay hands on nautical charts with the phone number of BASRA Headquarters. The…
Writing Sample Part 2
Here's the continuation of yesterday's post, a story from my current book project: Ocean of Insight. I encourage your comments and suggestions. Thanks, H Chapter One (continued) The temperature is dropping noticeably and sky and ocean froth in the same, dim-soviet color palate. If the storm hadn’t come so quickly…
Flight
Dizzy the mind caught in a Sangha of Cormorants In formation on wing just inches above the sea Swarming my body one-hundred fold. Primal wisdom urges me to jump To take my place in the V To act in community. But these arms are too slow. Duty and longing evaporate…
Words from Thich Nhat Hahn
Our own lives are the instrument with which we experiment with truth.
A Quote from Futurist Paul Gilding
To hold the paradox in our heads--that things are desperately dangerous and urgent but we must act positively and full of hope--is an enormous test for the mind and the soul to act together.The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Change EVERYTHING (For the Better)
Cheerful Cataclysm
Evidence is in all places Earth is berthing a Culture of Awakening Larger than religion, science, nations, or economics. The fierceness of discourse Incalculable investments undermining compassion These are the noises and graspings of society's dying, narrow self. We are greater than fright-filled limitations We are the seasons incarnate Exploding…
Ideas from Joanna Macy
Systems Scientist and Buddhist Scholar Joanna Macy asks the question, "How can we live in a way that allows our system to work as well as it can?" Here, "system" can mean family, neighborhood, cooperative, watershed, state, nation, or planet earth. In answer, Macy offers the following Guidelines of Intention.…
The Insight Environmentalist’s Four Noble Truths
1. Environmental advocacy is difficult, frustrating, and only occasionally successful work--yet it is vital. 2. Much of the dificulty comes from a craving for change; individual fear, anger, greed, jealousy, and desire for accomplishment; and the expectation we can control great economic, social, and environmental forces. 3. There is a…
The Acceptance of 400 PPM
Here is a simple confession: I often need to remind myself that pain is found in the gap between the way things are and the way I want things to be. My frustration and suffering increases the more I want things to be different. The only way to lessen pain…