Now is an opportunity for a radical new beginning, a departure from business as usual. This is a photo of the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 taken in Hamburg, Germany by my dear friend Dr. Gunnar Lindstroem. Remarkably, this potent eclipse coincided with the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring, on the last… [Continue reading]
Planetary Destabilization
Coming to Our Senses
This morning I tuned into my very favorite radio program “On Being”, which describes itself as a “spacious conversation” about “the big questions at the center of human life”. Host Krista Tippett interviewed Jon Kabat-Zinn about the role of mindfulness in our lives, which he defined as becoming intimate with the core of our own being. (In… [Continue reading]
What Will It Take?
My youngest recently graduated from elementary school. I live in a town in the Boston area called Newton, which is 144 miles away from Newtown in Connecticut. The difference between Newton and Newtown is one letter. I am in a state of shock, grief and rage over the slaughter of innocent children and teachers yesterday.… [Continue reading]
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
” The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world- we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world… [Continue reading]
Denial 101
I just went to CVS to get D batteries for my flashlight, but they were all sold out. Bostonians are getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, and Governor Patrick has declared a state of emergency. It’s always a challenge to separate hype from reality, but Sandy has been described as potentially a “Frankenstorm”, because of the unusual… [Continue reading]
