Online Only Click Here for Live Stream Fifty years after first celebrating Earth Day how do we stay grounded and motivated to do what it takes to maintain our planet as the life-giving home we depend on for our future and our children’s future. Michael will be joined by college friends Rick Duke (Senior Fellow … Continue reading Staying Grounded on Earth Day – Every Day
How can we can honor and show gratitude for the earth that sustains all life? What can the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address teach us? What makes Robin Kimmerer’s book “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” such an inspiring account of the many lessons we can learn from the plants and animals … Continue reading Gratitude to Mother Earth
When spring returns, when sap flows and bulbs poke their growing leaves above the dreary brown earth, it is easy to sing praises to the Source of All. The Christian story of Easter tells of a community facing a devastating loss of their teacher and leader – and how they discovered that the tomb had … Continue reading Flowers of Earth, Buds of Heaven
What if we thought of the Earth as a storyteller? What would she tell us? How can we prepare to listen? What lessons might we learn – as we strive to create healthy relationships with each other and with the earth? Which Earth-told stories have been important to you? Let Michael know. Today we also … Continue reading Listen to Your Mother (Earth)
Throughout human history, we have variously celebrated, feared and embraced the multiple, and often paradoxical, traits that characterize the one earth we all share as our home. The earth gives life and it takes life. The earth nourishes and withholds. The earth is beautiful and violent, peaceful and uncaring, fragile and resilient. And whether we … Continue reading Creator, Destroyer, Sustainer
