Two Simple Ways to Release Grief
"One of the primary reasons in the West is because we've privatized it. If we don't have a community to witness the process as so many cultures before us did, we risk falling into depression or despair. If we don't grieve enough, we risk suppressing the grief. According to Francis Weller, suppression risks health problems or volatile emotions like anger." In this thoughtful essay Cynthia Li differ... posted on Oct 07 2021, 12,305 reads

Threshold Choir: An Interview with Kate Munger
"In November of 1990 I was invited to spend a day with a friend of mine who was dying of HIV AIDS. He was comatose, but very agitated. There were chores I had to do in the morning, dishwashing and gardening. And he was a quilt maker so I organized his quilts fabric. When the work was done, I sat down by his bedside and didn't know what to do. I waited and waited. All I knew to do, to calm myself, ... posted on Oct 06 2021, 6,956 reads

Window of Possibility
"We live on Earth. Earth is a clump of iron and magnesium and nickel, smeared with a thin layer of organic matter, and sleeved in vapor. It whirls along in a nearly circular orbit around a minor star we call the sun. I know, the sun doesn't seem minor. The sun puts the energy in our salads, milkshakes, hamburgers, gas tanks, and oceans. It literally makes the world go round. And it's huge: The Ear... posted on Oct 05 2021, 4,450 reads

A Quite Interesting Approach to Education
John Lloyd is the television producer and presenter of some of the most renowned UK comedies in recent decades, including Blackadder and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 2002, he made the pilot of "QI" (an acronym for "Quite Interesting"), a popular show which is now in its 18th series on the BBC. "When I started QI, only about five per cent of people that I talked to understood what it wa... posted on Oct 04 2021, 3,114 reads

Mizuko Kuyo: A Unique Japanese Grieving Ritual
When parents lose a child, there are rituals to mark their grief -- holding funerals, sitting shiva, bringing casseroles. But when that loss happens before birth, it often isn't marked. Sometimes, it's barely even mentioned. It's different in Japan, which has a traditional Buddhist ceremony that some US Americans are adopting as their own. Called 'mizuko kuyo', which could be translated to 'water ... posted on Oct 03 2021, 3,194 reads

The Difference Between Healing & Curing
"In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I've seen a profound distinction between curing and healing. Curing is what a physician seeks to offer you. Healing, however, comes from within us. It's what *we* bring to the table. Healing can be described as a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual process of coming home." The founder of Commonweal, Dr. Michael Learner shares more. ... posted on Oct 02 2021, 2,878 reads

How Do You Be?
"'How are you?' Back before the pandemic, when you and I would greet other people by asking this question, we usually didn't expect or desire a real answer. If we got one, it had better be brief, and not too grim or involved. We weren't up for longwinded or dreary responses. That's not how the game was played. The pandemic might have altered our customary 'How are yous?' a bit. It might have made ... posted on Oct 01 2021, 4,044 reads

The Wisdom of Salmon
What can salmon teach us about sustainability in a complex environment? Marine biologist Alexandra Morton shares startling new research that lets us decode the information stored in a salmon's immune system. The data reveals where we're harming the fish, the ocean, and ourselves -- ultimately revealing lessons for how humans can thrive on this planet without destroying it.... posted on Sep 30 2021, 2,090 reads

Calling Team Earth
"Paul Hawken is a world-renowned environmentalist, activist, and author. His works include Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, and Sustainable Revolution. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Paul about the call to action in his newest book, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. Paul and Tami discuss the accelerating effects of climate change and how global so... posted on Sep 29 2021, 2,982 reads

Getting Back in Time
"Time has a hold on us, there is no escaping it. Sometimes it can seem to govern our lives: we're pressed for it; we don't have any; it's running out. We need to be on time and in time. At other 'times' we can find we have got time on our hands -- or better, the ease of having all the time in the world. It is such a vital aspect of our lives that telling the time is one of the first skills we teac... posted on Sep 28 2021, 3,591 reads