This is fabulous… I’m looking forward to participating. StoryCorps is declaring November 28, 2008 the first annual National Day of Listening. This holiday season, ask the people around you about their lives — it could be your grandmother, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood. By listening to their stories, you will be telling them […]
Category Archives: community
Carrotmob
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo. Carrotmob Website What power do we have to create change with our everyday habits of spending money? What’s possible when we organize together that isn’t when we act on our own?
Learning From Others
I feel so fortunate that my life includes opportunities to learn from and be with children. Here is a bit of learning that I journaled about the other day. One day as a school counselor, a fortunate human being, sharing, relating and exploring in an educational community. Today I learned about bravery. These children are […]
Sailing Through This Puzzling and Beautiful World
“I want people to sail with me through this puzzling and frightening world. I expect to fail at moments on this journey, to get lost–how could I not? And I expect that you too will fail. Even our voyage is cyclical–we can’t help but move from old to new to old. We will vacillate, one […]
A Thread in the Communion Tapestry
“To paint is easy, to write poetry is easy, but to create a communion with the energy of another, a dancing communion, is the greatest and most difficult art to learn.”~unknown author, Kara shared it with me. Below are thoughts and reflections all relating to this topic of communion. I’ve woven them together along one […]
Community
Community.Somewhere, there are peopleto whom we can speak with passionwithout having the words catch in our throats.Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us,eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with uswhenever we come into our own power.Community means strength that joins our strengthto do the work that needs to […]