Quote for Today: Em Claire
Oh, the best dancers know what grace every stumble contains. ―Em Claire, Silent, Sacred, Holy, Deepening Heart Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Oh, the best dancers know what grace every stumble contains. ―Em Claire, Silent, Sacred, Holy, Deepening Heart Public Domain Image via Pixabay
But imagine standing by the river, flooded with those same feelings as the Salmon march into the auditorium of their estuary. Rise in their honor, thank them for all the …
Unlike the many shamanic cultures that practice dreamwork, ritual, and thanksgiving, Westerners have forgotten what Indigenous people understand to be cardinal: that this world owes its life to the unseen. …
The library was a great sprawling complex with rolls and rolls of paper tucked into many shelves. Between the reading rooms were courtyards with living fountains and singing birds and …
Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom …
Go spend time with the aspen trees. They’ll tell you how it works. They’ll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They’ll tell you there’s warmth below the …
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling …
The Uses of Sorrow Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver Image …
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding …
I’m constantly having to give people geography and history lessons on how my grandmother’s hometown is 65 percent Afro-Puerto Rican, on how the majority of slaves were dropped off …