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For this special occasion, Mothering Day, I have created a video which I hope you will watch. The music pauses midstream, on purpose, I guess, but keep watching till the end. The message is important.
My best to all of you who mother the world!
Theology and A Way of Life
Amazing. I heard those same words many years ago, although in another context, to be sure. The same words. Though used differently.
Back then, it was a Native American elder speaking in a gentle and compassionate way to a group of interested non-natives. “Ours is not a theology,” he said, “it is a way of life.”
He [...]
Wintering, the Wellspring
I know you called and said you were waiting for me to post something personal, not just someone else’s quotation, but something I’m thinking about, because it’s important to share…
I want to. Every day I think about it. I’m here waiting for it to shape itself into words. Waiting for inspiration, for revelation, for the [...]
Wholeness and Courage
A quote from Marsha Sinetar:
“…Wholeness exists to the extent an individual is conscious of and receptive to his innermost self…When we think about our own growth we probably think simultaneously of two co-existing and equally necessary elements: self-knowledge (i.e. knowing who the self within us really is and awakening to the values, needs and wants [...]
The season to be…
In all my years, I’ve never seen anything like it.
I guess that after so many trees died or almost died in last summer’s hot drought or in the raging summer fires, those trees still here are now greatly rejoicing at actually being alive. Or perhaps they fear that this is their last hurrah. Either way, [...]
A comment on fear, attributed to Native American Dragging Canoe
“Wisdom tells us to get out of harm’s way at times, but it never tells us to weep with fear. Once we turn to face it, a quiet determined strength pours in to end the terror. Fear is terrorism. It is not running from it that cripples us but refusing to call it what it [...]
Sing, when birds are silent…
A poem by Margaret Crawford
Sing
when the birds are silent
Dance
when the wind is still
Laugh
when the rain is long coming
Bend
to the Spirit’s will
Open
when the day is closing
Thunder
when the sun shines full
Ground
when a wild wind spirals
Surrender
to the moon tides pull
Earth and stone
live long and slow
Stars cycle
through a trillion dreams
Water
knows not boundaries
Breath air
a constant stream
Honor
each passing second
Honor
above and below
Honor
the [...]
Timeless Quotes
Timeless Quotes From the Buddha from Gerald Penilla on Vimeo.
Wisdom From A Dream
Wow! Hang on, folks, what a year, right? Are you crisis weary?
I have been, for some time now. Getting up early each day to water what few trees and plants my water hose will reach, with one eye toward water conservation and the other toward my responsibility to those things [...]