Nature
END OF LIFE MATTERS
Susanne Duijjvestein inspired this post with this quote: “Being dead is no excuse.” Susanne is a young, progressive undertaker/funeral director in Amsterdam. She ditched a successful career in banking to pursue her interest in our Western culture practices surrounding death, particularly how we deal with the end of life as we know it. Another of
KNOWING and DOING
If you want to make a change, believe you know what to do and still can’t seem to do it, then what? It’s both complex and simple. Many people do not understand either the complexity or the simplicity. According to research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology there is an interconnected web of psychological, chemical
SEASON OF CHANGE
With Spring in full swing, we note the change by buds and blossoms, the vibrant colors, new growth, warmer temperatures, longer daylight hours, and a general increase of activity in the natural world. One thing we all have in common, regardless of our age, is that we also change, day by day, season by season,
FROM TIME TO TIME
From time to time, I think about time. We use time as if it were a commodity, even talk about how we spend it. The sun, moon and stars are better keepers of time than we are and I believe the indigenous peoples were onto this long before we invented clocks and attempted to regulate
WINTER SOLSTICE 2018
On Friday, December 21, 2018, at 2:23 pm PST 22:23 UTC, the sun will reach its southernmost point before starting back on its northward trek toward Spring. That’s for all of us in the northern hemisphere. You can calculate your own time accordingly. It has more to do with the tilt of the earth on its