Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Octavia’s Bookshelf in Altadena has turned into a hub of activity, no room for books, only donations. The store is named after Octavia Butler, famed science fiction author of Parable of the Sower written decades ago, about a girl in 2025 facing an apocalyptic fire fueled by climate change. This passage from her book is […]
I’m very pleased and heartened to see the number of lightworkers who are organizing community or connecting for similar productive ends. I see this as co-creative partnership at work. (1) I don’t know of that many: Simon Parkes in the UK and Connecting Consciousness, Mike Neye from Australia with Beyond Being Human, Arn Allingham (Zingdad) […]
How spiritual practices help me navigate my climate grief This post by Therese DesCamp brought me to tears . . . “Early one smoky August day, I finally reached the epilogue, which began with a portion of a short prayer from St. Francis of Assisi. ‘Our hands imbibe like roots,’ it read, ‘So I place […]
Recently a family member came to me extremely triggered by an event that happened long ago. We had a phone conversation followed by an email. In my reply to the email I was able to re-iterate and explain how I have managed change so not to react to external events now. In my Zoom […]
With the Divine Feminine rising within everyone, and without on the planet, a new perspective of Mary Magdalene has emerged lately through the ancient texts. Diana Butler Bass’s sermon went viral: And then, of course, we have the information through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love. Below is Jesus explaining his relationship with […]
Marianne Williamson: Every year on Mother’s Day I read the original Mother’s Day Proclamation (see below), written by Julia Ward Howe in 1870. It wasn’t created by happy mothers. It was the product of a unique and tragic congress: mothers of sons who died in the Civil War while fighting for the Union, and mothers […]
Many of you have devoted your lives — I’m not talking years, I’m talking lives — knowingly and unknowingly, you have committed to me, eon after eon, to this mission and purpose of love. And it has many facets and expressions. But never — never! — do I ask you to enslave yourself to work […]
Steve: Xenia is the retreat center at which I experienced the sight of the Self. (1) Xenia on Bowen Island, British Columbia, was created out of a vision for children to feel safe to be creative. All children, including the magical child within you. We are born into this world with a seed, a gift awaiting […]
Think You Can’t Make That Giant Pivot? Think Again—Here Are 5 Tips To Help You Take the Leap By Wendy Perrotti & Dana Hilmer, Above the Noise, October 29, 2022 https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/making-a-giant-life-pivot/ There are more women over 50 on the planet right now than at any other time in history. The energy of that is palpable. […]
I don’t think anyone knows what might be possible with real unity around the world. The world has never seen it, to the best of my knowledge. Even during World War II, the so-called Allies were all serving their own agendas. (1) They maintained a pretense of unity until the day the war ended. […]
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With great thanks to Sitara for sending this along. Mirror Ministries is a nonprofit based in the Tri-Cities that provides holistic support services to survivors of sex trafficking, educational resources and outreach to raise awareness about the crime locally in Benton and Franklin counties. They have served more than 430 sex trafficking survivors since its […]
By Sonya Renee Taylor. Yes, March 16, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2021/03/16/body-shame The only way to beat a rigged system of body shame is to give ourselves what the system never will: compassion and radical love. We’ve been indoctrinated to feel shame about our bodies, and to thoughtlessly shame others about their bodies. That’s an accepted societal norm […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca February 2021, I left a stove element on, burnt a pot, and my door was broken by the firemen. I wrote a post called, A Burnt Pot. . . with Apologies. On Monday, August 9th, my broken door was replaced with a “fire-proof door.” It took 5 months to be installed with Covid, shipping […]
By Elana Shepert, ViA, July 16th, 2021 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/this-outreach-clinic-supports-people-and-their-pets-on-the-downtown-eastside-photos-3963620 “Some of them say, ‘my dog is the reason I get up every day.” That’s UBC Clinical Instructor Kelsi Jessamine, who helped launch the Community Veterinary Outreach program in Vancouver in 2003. The program, which is located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, aims to improve the lives of […]
