The Breath of Life
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We And Our Technological Shadow (opens the original)
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Fall-as-the-butterfly-season, greetings!Life that became the catalyst for this piece didn’t leave me the headspace for finishing it by Sunday, as I usually do. But wonderful to be here with you on Tuesday. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1002
Wild Mind: Reconnecting Human Development to Earth and the Living World ft Brian Stafford, MD, MPH (opens the original)
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Greetings,Feeling blessed as I am writing this to be spending a few days in my childhood home, a village in Russia, about 200 km southeast of Moscow. Waking up to chirping, cackling, squawking, barking, fluttering, miaowing fills me with goosebumps and gratitude. It also reminds me how the thing I wanted most when growing up was to get out, to break free. To live a real=urban life. Over 30 years later, here I am, recognizing that no matter where I live, my home is here. As well as realness. And
Slow inefficient living (opens the original)
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Greetings,For a while now I have been drawn to stories, projects, accounts of long and slow practice in tiny increments.Something mundane and, by the feel of it, doable, like starting a day with a breath of outside air and a moment of giving thanks to life.Or from the naturalist world, visiting one “sit spot” day in and day out for years. Ok, maybe for a few months.Or building and deepening a relationship with one plant day in and day out for a year.Or creating a drawing every single day for 10
Art as a Practice of Attention, Relationship and Record-Keeping ft Rosie Whinray (opens the original)
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Greetings,So excited to share today’s conversation with , a New Zealand artist and Wizard. If that makes you curious, wait till I introduce her shortly.I’ve been attuning to art and artists lately with a sense of curiosity and participation. I was taught to engage with art as something distant, not of me and my life, that you see in museums and galleries, that gets sold for millions of dollars at auctions, that you qualify as art by dying for it, like Van Gogh.And then I was found by a different
Floating in the in-between (opens the original)
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Greetings from Berlin,Where hot days with over 25°C cannot mask the withering breath of fall. An ideal season for teaching us about transitions and liminal spaces.Which is where I have been a lot lately. With a number of visible and invisible shifts underway. I am about to come into empty nestedness, with my two kids going their own ways, one off to college or work, and the other for a 6-month school exchange program.There have been other big shifts and questions, personal and professional, whic
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