Miscellaneous
Deep time
One of the most human and humble things we do is to reach across generations. When my mother graduated from high school, her father gave her a watch. On the back, he engraved “for all time.” I asked her about it the other day, but she doesn’t remember what happened to it; and yet, it Read More...
The Batman Massacre: Will it wake us up?
“Thank God for this article by Michael Nagler. I have never needed ANY scientific proof that watching sick movies results in sick behavior. It’s the people who think up the sickness that goes into sick movies that are the initial criminals. It’s all to do with the money making machine that Read More...
Interview: Documentary filmmaker Emily James on direct action climate change
By Adrienne So at ecosalon.com Award-winning filmmaker Emily James is something of a sensation in the United Kingdom. Originally from Berkeley, California, James moved to Britain to get her professional degrees in film and television at Cambridge University. While her work covers a variety of Read More...
The discernment dance
When we follow that which excites and challenges us, an internal spark fuels us in our endeavors, and we’re able to step into our vision. By Antonia Hall “I just don’t have your discipline,” my girlfriend told me. But she does have it within her. I suspect she’s just lost the Read More...
Olympic peace
Wasn’t the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics stunning? I loved what Danny Boyle conceived and realized. Particularly, I loved that peace got not one, but two mentions. One was evidenced by the photograph above. The other was created to seem like human replicas of the original Read More...
In my own voice: The brilliance of Karly Wahlin
In the winter of 2009 my friend and recording engineer, Matthew Zimmerman, called to invite me into a remarkable project that was being recorded at his studio, Wild Sound, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A 24-year-old composer named Karly Wahlin was seeking a producer for a collection of ten of her Read More...
Surprise Ahead
As you may know, I’m the director of the Puget Sound Community School (PSCS) in Seattle. Part of my duties include some occasional teaching, or what we call ‘facilitating’ at PSCS, of classes. A recent one included me having the students read Annie Dillard’s book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Read More...
A Harvest of Peace
I read an American proverb the other day that got me thinking. “A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.” I think this is true. Sow contentment seeds and you definitely stand a chance of reaping peace. But then I got to thinking a little more deeply about this adage. Read More...
Nurture, Nurture, Nurture
Near as I can tell life on planet Earth is mostly about taking care. Taking care of our families. Taking care of our friends. Taking care of the work that we take responsibility for. Taking care of our homes, taking care of our possessions, our animals, our gardens, our plants, our cars, our Read More...
‘Pioneers of the Possible’: Profiles of 20 extraordinary women
By Rosie Spinks from ecosalon.com When Iranian American author Angella Nazarian was growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran, she didn’t have many female role models outside of her immediate family. “I came from a very traditional culture which was very patriarchal. [At age 11] when I first Read More...