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Yellowstone’s interpretive center at Grant Village is dedicated to RENEWAL. Exhibits show how Yellowstone ~ the world’s first and oldest national park ~ was able to regenerate itself after the devastating 1988 fire that consumed 793,880 acres (36%).
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We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. ~ E. Merrill Root (1895-1973), American Writer
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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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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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