Threshold Crossing: A Ritual For Change
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Late March by Richard Schiffman
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1w ago
Again the trees remembered to make leaves. In the forest of their recollection many birds returned singing. They sang, they sang because they forgave themselves the winter, and all that remained still bitter. Yet it was early spring, when the days were touch and go, and a late snow could nip a shoot, or freeze a fledgling in its nest. And where would we be then? But that’s not the point. Do you think the magpie doesn’t know that its chicks are at risk, or the peach trees, their too-frail blossoms, the new-awakened bees, all that is incipient within us? We know, but we can’t help ourselves any ..read more
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Eternity in Every Step
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2M ago
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The Way It Is by William Stafford
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2M ago
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread ..read more
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A Different Gift Guide
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4M ago
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You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford
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4M ago
Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts? When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day. This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life - What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, righ ..read more
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Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address- Greetings to the Natural World
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5M ago
The People - Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as people. Now our minds are one. The Earth Mother - We are all thankful to our Mother, the Earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She supports our feet as we walk about upon her. It gives us joy that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time. To our mother, we send greetings and thanks. Now ou ..read more
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Forests, Fires, Friends, Foes, and Frames
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6M ago
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When I am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
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by Anne-Marie Brest
6M ago
When I am among the trees,  especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness.  I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment,  and never hurry through the world  but walk slowly, and bow often.  Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.” The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say, “and you, too, have come into the world to do this, to go easy ..read more
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Embracing Fearlessly the Burning World
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7M ago
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