What is wrong with us? And why are we so impermeable to the changes roiling our planet?…
Has it been good to harm the world this way, to find meaning and spiritual journeying and faith and community and common purpose and love of Nature replaced with consumer stuff and shopping malls and poisoned water, land, and air, and cancer epidemics and the fragmentation of family, community, and village life?
Do we like this world as it is? And if not, why do we insist on believing that it must be like this, or that we can’t change it?
We can change it…
Some of the strongest bonds being developed between humans and all the sentient and non-sentient beings among whom they live are in the places where those humans are partnering with rivers, forests, wildlife, and more to defend the “places” where they live. We are beginning to “get it,” to understand on a very deep level that our very human existence and meaning itself depend upon the health of those relationships.
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If you follow us (and I know it’s been a few weeks here), you know that I/we are rethinking our approach and how to better represent what it is we do. As we move forward in this process, we hope you will continue to walk with us. Here are the specifics of what’s going on: […]
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We surrendered justice and the common good to the the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer elites who don’t really give a damn about the planet or the people and other living and non-living beings who dwell here.
What to do… Well, read on…
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In this transition time, humans must learn how to live on and within this planet. We must become a Transition People, and we must do that quickly. “Let us learn again what it means to be human within the whole of creation.” An end-of-the-year reflection.
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