READING ~ Listening Is an Act of the Heart by Leslie Takahashi One: Listening is not an act of the ear, listening is an act of the heart. Many: In…
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Part One: The Path of Courage – Indigenous People READING ~ Ladder to the Light, An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage. By Steven Charleston. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2021.…
READING ~ Once to Every Soul and Nation is a hymn based on the much longer poem "The Present Crisis" (1845) by James Russell Lowell (1819 -1891). It was written…
READING ~ from The Atlantic - June 1862 Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the…
READING ~ On Feeling Melancholy, The School of Life Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZ1EmPOE_k&t=165s Our first reading is from The School of Life, an online compendium of tips and tools for mental wellbeing. This…
READING ~ A Few Thoughts About Labor and Giving Sophocles - Without labor nothing prospers. Greek - 497 BCE Ovid - Take rest. A field that has rested gives a…
READING ~ Ancient Text – Matthew 22:36 - 40 36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God…
READING ~ Wheatley, Margaret J.. Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition. “I know it is possible to experience grace and…
OPENING WORDS by Rev. Sheri Prud’homme There comes a time When suffering weighs too heavy on the heart, When powerlessness passes through rate into shimmering acceptance of brutal truth,…
If we are to give rise to a new civilization worthy of our highest ideals and deepest values, it will be the cultivating spirit of the river of human freedom…
