"When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"
"A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Dec 13, 2018
- 1 min
Dying is safe
Kathleen Dowling Singh: ~Dying is safe. ~Our fear of death is grounded in a strong sense of the 'I'" ...a transformation from perceived...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Nov 26, 2018
- 1 min
The mind that comes to rest is tended In some ways that it cannot intend
Wendell Berry's words give us an understanding of why it is so hard to describe meditation ... "The mind that comes to rest is tended ...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Sep 27, 2018
- 2 min
"Just simply asking people: What are your priorities?"
Atul Gawande raises questions that help us be as perfectly imperfect as we are--mortal and holding very specific things precious. He...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Jun 7, 2018
- 1 min
true quiet
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Feb 21, 2018
- 1 min
"You have sacred outlook."
Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
midwifing "big mind," birthing insight
"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Feb 12, 2018
- 4 min
What are we here for?
I don't always like to use this kind of question--we don't need to earn life by being useful. So many people have a nagging feeling that...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
Biophilic cities
Trash dumpsters as planters that catch 2,000 gallons of runoff Micro-grids that are more resilient in emergencies--and maybe provide...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Dec 13, 2017
- 1 min
Person-sized penguins--life is cool.
Penguins as tall as a man of medium height, for millions of years, life thriving on earth after the extinction of dinosaurs. 20 million...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Oct 20, 2017
- 1 min
walking deep time
The last ice age lands 13 millimeters back...if the history of our earth is laid out along 100 meters. 1/5th of a millimeter "ago" we...
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