Category Archives: Uncategorized

Re-membering Who We Are: #4 – Giving Beauty Back to Earth

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Deborah

I awake on Saturday with anticipation. Two seasoned practitioners of the annual Global Earth Exchange are going to meet me to make beauty in a wounded local place as part of the tradition begun by Trebbe Johnson, founder of Radical … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Re-membering Who We Are: #3 – Tell the Story

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Deborah

Last week I helped plan a retreat for members of an Interfaith Climate Circle. We spent time outdoors. I received a clear message from the world around me, a commandment really: Tell the Story. Later in the day one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Re-membering Who We Are: #2 – Interpenetrated by God

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Deborah

Interpenetrated by God – I picked up that phrase from one of those master mystics who still heard the original message of Christianity sometime before 400 CE, even though the mystic lived many centuries later. Or the phrase could be from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Re-membering Who We Are: #1 – Who Gives Joy

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Deborah

In February last year, ( 2023 ) I unwittingly began a series called Becoming Whole that carried me for most of the year. I haven’t posted often since 2024 began and I want to renew my commitment to sharing. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Becoming Whole: #33 – Looking More Deeply

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Deborah

After 400 years of separating our rationality from all the other ways we know “things,” our wisdom has been watered down, our intelligence short-circuited.. Like animals in zoos, we have been boxed too tightly to nurture our full capacity for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Becoming Whole: #32 – Who Are We Really?

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Deborah

“I think I might have a dog’s nose,” s/he said, looking amazed. “I’ve never experienced anything like this…I can smell each person’s unique scent and I don’t mean perfume or after-shave. I mean every body smells different. I asked some … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Becoming Whole: #31 – Reframing Winter Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Deborah

I am devoted to redeeming the miracle, magnificence and fecundity of the dark, so I am always a little sad when winter Solstice arrives in the Northern Hemisphere. I might not feel that way if our summer Solstice were all … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Becoming Whole: #30- FORK in the Road

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Deborah

David Korten challenges us with the need to choose. Do we choose love for life as our guiding principle or the love of money. He points out that the former leads to thriving and the latter to species’ suicide.  Michelle … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Becoming Whole: #29- Love Knows No Limits

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Deborah

Continuing with wisdom from S/He Who Shall Not Be Named: …you cannot fight for peace…(but) even when we are peace seekers and peace activists, we still perpetuate the same patterns of war, patterns like ownership, possessions – mine – not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Becoming Whole: #28- Love Yourself

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Deborah

The presenter for our 5th Session in the course: Thriving in the Emerging New World blew my heart wide open. She Who Shall Not Be Named to Protect her Life and the Lives of Those She Loves is a tribal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment