Quote of the Day: Rumi once wrote, “I have no vocation but this, and no need to touch every rose…
Earth Day, when people around the world come together to support the protection of the environment, is commemorating its 50th anniversary this year. The covid-19 pandemic will mean celebrations are muted, but it is worth looking back at its achievements and seeing if it can still make a difference in today’s world.I was there at the beginning.
Quote of the Day: Our Franciscan teacher Richard Rohr once said to a bunch of us over-earnest, graying wisdom seekers:…
Quote of the Day: Variety—diversity-has been called the spice of life. But Audre Lorde reminds us that “refusing to recognize…
Quote of the Day: When black novelist James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing…
Quote of the Day: Black feminist Anna Julia Cooper proclaims, “We take our stand on the solidarity, the oneness of…
In July 2016, Jack Loeffler recorded Gary Snyder reading his updated version of ‘Four Changes’ in his home. This recorded…
Quote of the Day: We live in a world much different than the one in which the first Earth Day…
Quote of the Day: Pete McCloskey, the co-founder of Earth Day, 50 years ago this month, reminds us that youth…
Quote of the day: In the Christian and Muslin traditions of the Middle East and North Africa, there was fear…