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2013-03-19T18:15:20+00:00

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Tracking Blossoms

Last updated on: March 19, 2013 at 6:15 pm By Sterling

The cherry trees are in bloom here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The white and pink blossoms signal that spring is here. Their beauty brings a certain lightness to the step. The tradition of picnicking under a blossoming cherry tree brings a certain joy to the heart. The San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival in April is a wonderful celebration of Japanese culture in California as well as the beauty of the flowers and the excitement of spring. But the... Read more

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2013-03-15T00:19:29+00:00

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My spiritual map

Last updated on: March 15, 2013 at 12:19 am By Niki Whiting

Niki draws a silly map of her 'sacred landscape.' Read more

2013-03-14T21:44:25+00:00

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Enchantment: coming back to our Selves

Last updated on: March 14, 2013 at 9:44 pm By Traci

Traci concludes her two-part exploration of Enchantment, and discovers, while thinking about the pain of the Self/Other split, that re-enchantment might be as easy as "Deciding," after all. Read more

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2013-03-13T17:59:38+00:00

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Expanded awareness

Last updated on: March 13, 2013 at 5:59 pm By Sterling

I wrote a while back about sitting in one spot for an hour at a time over the course of a year to meet the wildlife in your garden or a local park. Today I'd like to return to that to speak about finding the expanded awareness that will help you learn more about your wild neighbors. Read more

2017-05-08T17:39:41+00:00

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Knowing our places, inside and out

Last updated on: May 8, 2017 at 5:39 pm By Elinor Prędota

T. Thorn Coyle's book "Make Magic of Your Life" focuses on desire and making desires into reality, taking the reader on a journey with the four powers of the Sphinx: to know, to will, to dare and to keep silent, and a fifth power, the power to manifest. All of us are driven by desire: our desire to be, to know, to have and to do, one way or another, is behind all of our seeking, our journeys, and our choices. My pilgrimage of connection with place in my life is driven, fundamentally, by the desire to belong to something greater than myself, and to something greater than human. Read more

2013-03-08T04:22:24+00:00

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Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes

Last updated on: March 8, 2013 at 4:22 am By Niki Whiting

Niki looks ahead to Cherry Hill Seminary's conference on Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes and wonders what the map of her spiritual landscape might look like. Read more

2013-03-07T15:21:45+00:00

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Enchantment: the story of disconnection in our modern world

Last updated on: March 7, 2013 at 3:21 pm By Traci

Traci writes this week about the alienation of scientific consciousness, and begins a two-part exploration of how to re-enchant her world. Read more

2013-03-05T18:55:52+00:00

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Appropriate Stories

Last updated on: March 5, 2013 at 6:55 pm By Sterling

How can someone from a dominant culture share the ways in which another culture has helped them without seeming to be a cultural colonist? How can we borrow without appropriating? Read more

2017-05-08T17:42:10+00:00

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Aliens on our own planet? What science fiction and space exploration can teach us about our sense of place.

Last updated on: May 8, 2017 at 5:42 pm By Elinor Prędota

We may often feel alien to ourselves and to the life around us - alienated - but the truth is that we are not. Not only this planet, but the land we stand on this very moment is our home, and we need to start behaving like it. Read more

2013-03-01T19:52:21+00:00

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Make Magic of Your Life: wherever you are

Last updated on: March 1, 2013 at 7:52 pm By Niki Whiting

Niki Whiting takes the concepts from T. Thorn Coyle's recent book, Make Magic of Your Life, and applies them to the idea of Place. Read more

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