"A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and...

Kathleen Dowling Singh: ~Dying is safe. ~Our fear of death is grounded in a strong sense of the 'I'" ...a transformation from perceived...

Wendell Berry's words give us an understanding of why it is so hard to describe meditation ... "The mind that comes to rest is tended ...

Atul Gawande raises questions that help us be as perfectly imperfect as we are--mortal and holding very specific things precious. He...

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees,...

Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or...

"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...

I don't always like to use this kind of question--we don't need to earn life by being useful. So many people have a nagging feeling that...

Trash dumpsters as planters that catch 2,000 gallons of runoff Micro-grids that are more resilient in emergencies--and maybe provide...

Penguins as tall as a man of medium height, for millions of years, life thriving on earth after the extinction of dinosaurs. 20 million...

The last ice age lands 13 millimeters back...if the history of our earth is laid out along 100 meters. 1/5th of a millimeter "ago" we...