This postcard was copied from StarLightWalker's post: Obstacles.  While StarLightWalker received permission from Steve Sorensen, the  artist of the beautiful website Nana Gaia to use this photograph, I did not ask.  I trust it is acceptable to use for this purpose. I had all good intentions of writing a passable post about ...

I avoided, for months, a phone call to a certain uncle, diagnosed with a horrible and rare disease back in the fall, hospitalized with acute and life-threatening symptoms over the past few weeks. I finally called him. I did not give in to what I’d been resisting. I resisted the urge to give up and give in. And I’m proud of myself. Not for calling ...

Technorati Profile Ohm or Om     I have tried to resist the killing frost, to create enough heat in my defiance to save a whole orchard of pear and peach. As if worry could raise a May night one degree.   I invent new battle hymns in my blood. With my friction, I try to protect the trees. But fervor has no effect on ...

  From a site called ''Serving Bread'' comes the 10 top reasons why men should NOT be ordained.  A little satire is good for the soul!  From the extended syllabus of Systematic Theology 3: 10.    A man’s place is in the army.9.     The pastoral duties of men who have children ...

This post is the essence of a talk I gave February 24, 2008 at the Spiritual Awareness Community in Bend, Oregon. Raising Resistance to an Art Form ”Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”-- the Borg in Star Trek, The Next Generation There’s not going to be anything said or done today that you don’t already know or understand. What you ...

A Language Older Than Words ''There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even know that it exists.''  -Derrick Jensen Do these words speak ...