Category: Essays

A Good Start, by Tracy Cochran

A Dutch Village, ‘Guernica’, and the power of remembering

“Because of You!”, by Lillian Firestone

Photograph by Dimitri lakymuk

Among fields of lavender, understanding comes

Meeting Remarkable Trees, by Keith Badger

"In Quiet Awe" by Victoria Elbroch

What our arboreal friends can teach us

Seeing in the Fog, by Lydia Bailey

Cleveland clouds. Photograph by Erik Drost

A story on homelessness, the deep woods, and wonder

Behind the Mask, by Peter Coyote

Carnival masks from Venice. Photograph by Dagoos at Dutch Wikipedia

The acclaimed actor, now Zen teacher, remembers

The Missing Piece, by Cynthia Bourgeault

Merion Friends Meeting House, Narberth, Pennsylvania. National Park Service

A transformative discovery lights the way

Stones in the Sacred Household: The 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions, by Trebbe Johnson

A hopeful report from the 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions

The Golden Rule and the Transformation of Being, by Stephen Aronson

Icon of St. Sophia. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

How the Golden Rule can be the Golden Path

Tracking Thoreau & Leopold, by Keith Badger

Aldo Leopold with quiver and bow seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938. Forest Service, USDA. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Pacific Southwest Region 5. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

A trail toward a Golden Rule, a Land Ethic, and real magic

The Golden Rule Tetraflexagon, by Steffan Soule

https://www.goldenruleproject.org/golden-rule-tetraflexagon

The Golden Rule Tetraflexagon is a magic device created by Steffan Soule in order to teach the Golden Rule.