Recently I've read various thoughts about meditation and prayer that have stuck with me. Journalist Johann Hari's book Lost Connections discusses the power of regular meditation to bring healing...
Indigenous botanist Robin Kimmerer offers a vision of reciprocal relationships with the earth in her book Braiding Sweetgrass. In this passage, she describes how at a powwow she attends, some of...
Each year, millions of Canadians face the reality of living with a mental health condition. However, mental illness affects everyone directly or indirectly through family, friends or coworkers....
I was excited to see that the prompt for this season’s submissions was “well-being,” because I felt like I had things to say about this topic. But it didn’t take much preliminary writing to see a...
Our fast-paced lives can leave little time for reflection. Yet moments of calm reflection help us appreciate the many blessings of life. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote, “The world is...
One of the most fundamental aims of my kind of Quakerism is having a pure intention: living our lives in a way that feels right and (usually) makes sense....
For Indigenous people, Smudging is one of the simplest ways of purifying ourselves and our space. The Smudge can consist of one or a combination of these Medicines: Cedar, Sage, and Sweetgrass. It...
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