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We’ve all watched kids laughing at a joke, then asking that the joke be retold, and laughing again just as heartily the second time, and finally entreating us to retell the same joke. Somehow, for young children, on the third recounting (if it happens at all), the joke remains as new and funny as the first time it was told.
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Perhaps it’s because I was born in November, a time Black Elk spoke of as “The Moon of Falling Leaves,” that image-rich autumn is my favorite season.
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Make it new. ~ Ezra Pound
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In harmony with the Tao,
the sky is clear and spacious,
the earth is solid and full,
all creatures flourish together,
content with the way they are,
endlessly repeating themselves,
endlessly renewed. ~ Tao Te Ching (39)
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Drive a few miles south of Half Moon Bay, then a few miles inland from Highway 1 and – if you have a detailed map of the region – you’ll find Elkus Ranch. This scenic 600-acre learning center provides hands-on experience to youth and children with special needs living in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Students come from crowded cities into a world they may have only read about in books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Few things are more gratifying that seeing the fruits of our labor and being pleased with them. However, much of what we do is temporarily invisible, only to take shape later on. This can be daunting and often leads to giving up too soon.
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Tuck Everlasting, a children’s classic by Natalie Babbitt written almost 35 years ago and adapted twice for the screen, is a fantastic tale of 10-year-old Winnie Foster who becomes friends with a family of immortals, the Tucks. Through their eyes and experience, she grows to understand that living forever is not all it is imagined to be.
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In My Stroke of Insight, neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor recounts in vivid detail the events of her 1996 stroke, caused by an arterio-venous malformation, including the removal of a golf ball size blood clot that was placing pressure on the language centers in the left hemisphere of her brain. Her explanation of this life-threatening and life-changing experience from the unique perspective of a brain scientist reveals how each of us can access at any time the loving oneness and compassion of our right-brain function. continue reading …
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Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”
Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise,
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us
to connect.
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As advertising has become more and more sophisticated and aggressive, the modern middle and upper classes have become increasingly susceptible to its primitive pressures and to judgments from others based on possessions. They either pass muster or they don’t. Though this is nothing new, the intensity of these pressures and the near-universal failure to cope with them are. Even in loving families where the importance of empathy, gratitude, and self-awareness have been taught, the worm of materialism has found entry. continue reading …
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