The MobilisationIn 1 month, the biggest U.N. climate conference of the decade is happening in Paris. Humans created the climate crisis, and now we have to mobilize to fight it. Thanks for this great video Coalition Climat 21!
Posted by 350.org on Friday, October 30, 2015
Post-debate (10/3/12) - time to listen again to Christen Lien's work in mourning after the Gulf Oil Spill (sorry about the ads! that is new). I hope it stirs your heart.
WENDELL BERRY ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE
More from Blair Mountain - Dustin Steele and others
They Won't Keep Us Down from Grace Wang on Vimeo.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in the Strip District of Pittsburgh at 5am Saturday
taken by Sheila Rodgers on her 56th birthday!
taken by Sheila Rodgers on her 56th birthday!
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
from Dream Work by Mary Oliver
published by Atlantic Monthly Press
© Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
from Dream Work by Mary Oliver
published by Atlantic Monthly Press
© Mary Oliver
A sorrow song... on Being
Tuesday Evening Melody: “North Dakota” by Chris Knightby Trent Gilliss, senior editor
... an homage to the great prairie state and the Missouri River, which is reclaiming its banks and swallowing up homes and lands it hasn’t said hello to since the Big Muddy was dammed nearly 60 years ago. The effort may be futile and nature may remind us that flood control is never foolproof. But to try to salvage what remains is noble, whether it mitigates disaster or not. And the way that catastrophe galvanizes a community is one positive I’ll take from these days in the sun with shovel in hand, and lower back in tow.
Tuesday Evening Melody: “North Dakota” by Chris Knightby Trent Gilliss, senior editor
... an homage to the great prairie state and the Missouri River, which is reclaiming its banks and swallowing up homes and lands it hasn’t said hello to since the Big Muddy was dammed nearly 60 years ago. The effort may be futile and nature may remind us that flood control is never foolproof. But to try to salvage what remains is noble, whether it mitigates disaster or not. And the way that catastrophe galvanizes a community is one positive I’ll take from these days in the sun with shovel in hand, and lower back in tow.
I had to put Christen's beautiful performance front and center again -
thinking about Alabama and Joplin, MO and other places and people in pain.
thinking about Alabama and Joplin, MO and other places and people in pain.
Alabama Tornado Relief
Read here about two bloggers' efforts to centralize information about how to help those affected by the tornadoes.
A wonderful talk about Principled Activism - with Wendell Berry (a favorite hero) and Teri Blanton (an activist who works for clean energy and social justice) of Kentucky Rising, and climate activist Tim DeChristopher. Created by Orion Grassroots Network.
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
Michael Franti
Video about the Amizade Water Event
On June 22nd, 2010, Christen Lien performed at TEDxOilSpill in Washington DC, an event created in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During a time of reflection and mourning at the acclaimed event, she performed '15 Aftermaths'.
