I’m writing about this because one of the biggest, baddest monsters under the bed of most creative writers is the desire to please others. One of the most inspiration-crushing reflexes of the artist is to analyze and judge everything that comes...
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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5 Reasons Why Bringing Your Kids to Concerts is a Great Idea!
Once upon a time most community events were places where all generations mingled. Elders, youth, children, adults…everybody...
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Raised Free Range: The Inside Scoop From Outside the Box
I grew up an experiential learner, guided by my interests and the love of learning that is natural to all humans. (That’s right;...
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There seems to be a dichotomy set up in some peoples minds between being “nice” and being “honest.” Not in the sense that “nice” people are constantly lying through their teeth, but rather a lot of us seem to...
To me, the title of this post encapsulates the crux of most modern-day existential and relationship dilemma’s. How do we go about balancing this, relatively recent, cultural obsession with personal freedom with the unavoidable reality of...
Despite this oft repeated adage “it takes a village to raise a child”our society seems to have headed in the opposite direction. The nuclear family model and pressures of modern society leave little space for sharing the task of child-rearing...
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...