"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...

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...

Painting by Jaya Julienne Ashmore Though your destination is not yet clear, You can trust the promise of this opening, Unfurl yourself...

Trash dumpsters as planters that catch 2,000 gallons of runoff Micro-grids that are more resilient in emergencies--and maybe provide...

Knowing we are okay, even in all our weirdness and tenderness, can give rise to the joy and confidence that makes our spiritual path come...

How important the ongoing transformations--transformation on the go, not after we get to that perfect starting place first--embedded in...

Interesting to notice how much and how long we can ignore hints about surprising truths. A wealthy Viking warrior--with arms stronger...

Immersion is the one way for language to sustain itself across generations, and revitalizing the indigenous language is part of...

Allowing our actual needs to clarify our places of nourishment--feeding and being fed upon, native and maker in one of the many wonderful...

Penguins as tall as a man of medium height, for millions of years, life thriving on earth after the extinction of dinosaurs. 20 million...

"'...dharma has become beholden to commodification, viewing it as inescapable and de rigueur.'" And a path that "'prepares us for the...

Synthetic happiness sounds fake, right? We are happiness-makers, not creatures who have to manipulate the world --get money, fame,...

In her 80s, Goodall travels internationally to let us know we are not the only creatures who feel emotions, plan, recognize ourselves in...

I love when research helps crack open old assumptions. I have a friend who applauds whenever a lame concept gets broken or dispelled. ...

"My emotional and mental well being depends on my commitment to what I care for most. It depends on being resilient, which is not the...

Michael Leunig is a cartoonist for a major newspaper...and he uses the word God often accompanied by a simple drawing of a duck. You have...

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...

Martin Rees with Krista Tippett on "...deeper mystery,... ... related to the nature of space itself. There’s evidence, ... in the last 10...

" In the story of life on earth, single-celled, microscopic organisms have built our planet in spectacular landscapes such as the white...

from the Open Dharma newsletter, December 2016 On retreat sometimes people ask to hear “my story,” how it has been and how it is for me...