Bell Hooks puts into words a question I ask myself on the regular: “How do we hold people accountable…and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” In the...
The Number One Way To Raise Environmentally Conscious Kids
” Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain...
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Are you Blocking Your Own Creative Flow?
I’m writing about this because one of the biggest, baddest monsters under the bed of most creative writers is the desire to...
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If Not “Back To Normal” Then Where To? Visioning YOUR New World….
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks *Note: for those of you feeling oversaturated with content and...
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Everyone has their own process when it comes to writing, be it song-writing, creative writing or writing a thesis. As a self-taught musician I’ve never had a very technical approach. I find a lot of people feel intimidated about getting...
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge” Tuli Kupferberg What are some of the key paradigms, or ways of thinking and seeing the world, that need to shift in order for us to view learning differently? Are we recreating patterns in our...
Conscious Birth A couple of years ago I took a two week course on spiritual midwifery with Uva Meiner, a midwife from Costa Rica. She gave the workshop at my mother’s retreat center, Heartroot Farm, in the Eastern townships of Quebec. Though my...
To Do or Not to Do To put it mildly, there is a bit of an obsession with “doing” in the current market culture. Productivity levels, infinite growth as a norm, success as climbing the social ladder. We are encouraged to use our time to produce...