Notes

These clouds are where my heart is today https://www.instagram.com/p/CDNaL6tHNB0/?igshid=1n1hw6x5hv1zh

Today’s Haiku (July 28, 2020) for a lover            in 10 million years from now            I cut dahlias                                    Takajo Mitsuhashi

San Mateo meditation demonstration #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (at Central Park & Recreation Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjkBchp5nV/?igshid=82n1nhzvsio7

Those who pursue the truth are members of the community of truth-seekers and reformers throughout time and space. They do not resign themselves to a collective fate that offers no laurels.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves Racial Justice / Engaging Together for Change: An Invitation | Plum Vil

Opinion: If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy

I believe that in most circumstances, doing race work in an integrated setting is harmful. This is not a popular belief, especially among white people. I have been challenged on this time and again, and I keep showing up for these conversations in mixed-race settings and breaking down from the pain

In the meantime, I leave anyone who has the bad luck to be in public life at this moment with a final thought from Władysław Bartoszewski, who was a member of the wartime Polish underground, a prisoner of both the Nazis and the Stalinists, and then, finally, the foreign minister in two Polish democr

Living a life devoid of ceremony leaves us without allies. Shut out of our reality, they abandon us to a world without intelligence – the very image of modernist ideology. The mechanistic worldview becomes its own self-fulfilling prophecy, and we are indeed left with nothing but force by which to af

In a ceremony, one attends fully to the task at hand, performing each action just as it should be. A ceremony is therefore a practice for all of life, a practice in doing everything just as it should be done. An earnest ceremonial practice is like a magnet that aligns more and more of life […]

How do we protect those susceptible to Covid?” invites us into “How do we care for vulnerable people in general? The Coronation | Charles Eisenstein

There is a vital need to return to “the root of the root,” and at the very core of our predicament is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation. Having forgotten that the Earth is sacred, we use it as a resource to be exploited, and human beings have become consumers to fulfill this […]

Yes, we will have to learn how to live at the end of an era, at a time of increasing insecurity, disturbance, even chaos. We will see more and more the value of care, compassion, and community, and develop the tools of radical resilience, as we are already recognizing in our response to the virus. [