Carla is currently referencing the article, “Ethical Maxims for a Marginally Inhabitable Planet” in her Sunday talks. Here is the link to the article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1kuLQTR92ZG9LdGWRBBwQbqoYqbv-A8W97tbg0al3k/edit … Continue reading
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Thanksby W. S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to … Continue reading
AUDIO RECORDING OF DISCUSSION FROM 2-5-2023 “Supporting Our Apprenticeship to Sorrow”https://drive.google.com/file/d/1shX_2abjzTBBtr7mAQMFRO-N_OLHATkk/view?usp=sharing Practices for continuing your “apprenticeship with sorrow.” Connect with a few people: Create a grief circle.Writing, journaling. Art and ritual.Practice GratitudeDiscover and savor beauty.Practice self-compassion daily.What kind of ancestor … Continue reading
INTERESTING GRIEF RESOURCES “All There Is” podcast with Anderson Cooper. https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper NPR Science Friday Book Club, “The Grieving Brain”https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/grieving-brain-scifri-book-club/ YouTube with Francis WellerLoss in a Time of Uncertainty: Francis Weller Susan Cain: “Bittersweet: The Hidden Riches in Sorrow and Longing”Her … Continue reading
Gate 5: Ancestral Grief Link to the recorded talk and discussion:https://drive.google.com/file/d/12hs7KEW4MUDczXNa7itNT0FKzsYEImjL/view?usp=sharing From Francis Weller: “Ancestral grief is the grief we carry in our body from the sorrow experienced by our ancestors.” “All trauma has grief, but not all grief has … Continue reading
RECORDING, QUOTES AND POEMS FOR 12/4/22 TALK AND DISCUSSION: “Grief for what we expected and did not receive.” LINK TO RECORDING OF TALK AND DISCUSSION https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b10CGeW-XXs1uCXwo99Dtl_i_hYR-3TU/view?usp=sharing Francis Weller:“It was the expectation of holding space for us within family, community, culture.” … Continue reading
The Five Gates of Grief and Their Medicinesby Francis Weller Each Gate of Grief carries a seed of imagination that reveals a hidden threshold within its core. The grief found at each particular gate, when experienced and expressed adequately, invites … Continue reading
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness … Continue reading
Below is material related to Carla’s discussion on the dharma of beauty, 12/12/21. “There can be no wakeful whole-hearted devotion to stand for anything of substance – justice or peace or the varied subtle ways we have of protecting all … Continue reading
Here are some follow-up resources following Carla’s talk on 10/10/21, “The Way Forward is Now.” (The talk could alternately be titled, “Courageously Facing the Elephant in the Room.”) Carla recommends watching this video with Joanna Macy:“JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis as … Continue reading