Remembering Diversity Compassion Orangutan, From The Era When Conservatives Pretended To Care- The Yes Men In Andy’s old haunt of the Castro, the “Bush campaign” went around with “Diversity Compassion Orangutan,” the conservative answer...
Thresholds and Thin Times- Christine Valters Paintner In Celtic tradition there are many moments considered to be a “thin time” which means that heaven and earth feel closer and we might experience moments of connection to those who have gone before us in ways that we...
Mentorship with the More-Than-Human World- Sophie Strand It seems like every day a new guru, spiritual teacher, or self-help sovereign gets outed for sexual misconduct and harmful behavior. The followers of these people float off, betrayed and ungrounded, tugged...
A Father and Son Go Fishing- Chip Blake I bought my first tackle box at Paul’s Tackle Shop on Talbot Street in Ocean City, Maryland, in 1972. It’s blue and made by a company called Old Pal. Some internet research suggests that Old Pal went out of business in the...
Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion- Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D. I recently came upon an essay of Mary Oliver’s written near the end of her life. In it, she writes of her longing in the Spring to discover what she describes as “the desire to be lost again, as long ago”...
