Content Tagged ‘nature’
April 4, 2018 | Tags: community, Justice, metanoia, nature, Peace, spring, Transformation
Forty to one. That’s the ratio of sap to maple syrup in the long, slow process of creating the amber sweetness my family used to boil and bottle every spring. It’s a ratio that tells you something about the time and determination required to make syrup, but gives no hint of the longer arc of […]
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November 11, 2016 | Tags: community, Difficult Times, endurance, fear, hope, humanity, Imagination, nature
Any national election has the potential to redefine how a country understands its identity. So it’s no surprise that the recent presidential election in the U.S. has reverberated so deeply in the core of our fears and vulnerabilities. Since the elections this week, many people are stunned, angry, grieving and fearful about the future. What […]
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January 13, 2014 | Tags: hope, nature, paying attention, spring, winter
I know it is only the middle of January, not yet even the mid-point between winter solstice and spring equinox when we watch the ground hog for signs of how much longer we must endure winter’s chill. And still, yesterday, as we emerged from the polar vortex and watched the temperature rise, first above zero, […]
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