Category Archives: Big Matters
We Cannot Love What Is Not
Helen MacDonald’s memoir, H is for Hawk, is about falconry as mourning in the wake of her father’s sudden death. But what struck me most about MacDonald’s book is the way climate change is present throughout, without being the intended subject.
We Cannot Love What Is Not
Helen MacDonald’s memoir, H is for Hawk, is about falconry as mourning in the wake of her father’s sudden death. But what struck me most about MacDonald’s book is the way climate change is present throughout, without being the intended subject.
Yoga for Climate Action: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
Yoga for Climate Action: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
Yoga for Climate Action: Brahmacharya
Why you want to move so fast? We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time.
-Jermaine Stewart
Yoga for Climate Action: Brahmacharya
Why you want to move so fast? We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time.
-Jermaine Stewart
Yoga for Climate Action: Asteya
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
-Hymn of the Big Wheel: Massive Attack
Yoga for Climate Action: Asteya
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
-Hymn of the Big Wheel: Massive Attack
Yoga for Climate Action: Satya
You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin’ to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock – Joe Strummer
Yoga for Climate Action: Satya
You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin’ to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock – Joe Strummer
Yoga for Climate Action: Ahimsa
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political minds in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” –Albert Einstein
Yoga for Climate Action: Ahimsa
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political minds in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” –Albert Einstein
The Family Practice: on loss and grooves
Words dried up when my father died. In the new year I’m finding new words, but this paragraph I wrote in June was like a lump in my throat, demanding to come first:
The Family Practice: on loss and grooves
Words dried up when my father died. In the new year I’m finding new words, but this paragraph I wrote in June was like a lump in my throat, demanding to come first:
Spring and Fall
This poem used to seem very different to me than it does now. I had always read in it that fear of our own death is the root of all feelings of loss.
Spring and Fall
This poem used to seem very different to me than it does now. I had always read in it that fear of our own death is the root of all feelings of loss.
Animal First, Citizen Second: Talking the Bodily Politic with Nance Klehm
‘Dirty activist’ and Illinois native Nance Klehm has built a life’s work grounded in the belief that there is no outside of the natural world, whether it’s our soil, water, or our own human nature.
Animal First, Citizen Second: Talking the Bodily Politic with Nance Klehm
‘Dirty activist’ and Illinois native Nance Klehm has built a life’s work grounded in the belief that there is no outside of the natural world, whether it’s our soil, water, or our own human nature.
A Duty of Gratitude
Vincent Van Gogh, in one of over 900 letters to his brother Theo.
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