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Musings: Animal Stories

I’ve shared my living space with companion animals for almost all my life.

Musings: The Earth Is Our Mother

Molten lava. Tree frogs. A fertile valley. Our green-blue marble in space. These are some images that come to mind when I think of Mother Earth.

Mayan Midwife Center Nears Completion

In January 2001, Spirit of Change asked readers to sponsor efforts to build a midwife/health center in Concepcion, Guatemala -- home to Felipe and Elena Ixcot, currently residents of Vermont, and honored elders attending the annual Harvest Gathering each year.

Musings: "Bombing Iraq Is So Last Century!"

A year ago when the theme “Beginning Anew” was chosen for this issue, I wondered if we might possibly be living in a radically transformed world at this time -- for better or for worse.

The New America

As surely as renewed resentment and violence is brewing worldwide in response to the United States’ attack on Iraq, a New America is also being born out of the ashes of these recent world events.

Musings: Education Outside The Box

My daughter, Michella, is graduating from high school and stepping out into the adult world. Her first cultural milestone -- oh, but what a precipice for her mother!

Musings: Delicious Eating, Light Living

Two years ago, natural cooking columnist Michelle Hirsch began submitting her column to Spirit of Change and I have been grateful to her ever since.

Musings: The Power of One

Good health. To love and be loved. Inner peace. Imagine a life lived in the fullness of these three qualities and you might find yourself reflecting upon the ideal human existence.

Musings: Where Have All the Hippies Gone?

I coulda' woulda' shoulda' been a hippie, but I was born too late...or maybe it was right on time, depending upon how you look at it.

Grandfather William Commanda Passes

I was looking over past "Musings" columns in Spirit of Change and I noticed a little trend in my writing inspired by the spiritual gathering in Maniwaki, Quebec which I attend each August.

Musings: A World of Beauty

For a culture obsessed with appearances and glamour, it is ironic how little value we place on beauty.

Musings: Healing With Bodywork

Despite all the visionary and spiritual ideas I work with everyday, I’m actually a very logical person.

Musings: The Land Around Us

A mild winter has been appreciated by many New Englanders this season while lamented by just as many others, no doubt! As inhabitants of the Northeast, we are blessed with a rich variety of seasonal pleasures to enjoy throughout the year, without the annual threat of fatal weather conditions to consider.

Are We The New People Of The Seventh Fire?

The elder who recently passed mentioned last year that the time for talking about the prophecies has ended because we are living those prophecies now.

Musings: Post September 11

"Think it's time we stop...hey...what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down..." —Buffalo Springfield

Musings: September 11 Voices and Perspectives

We arrived home Sunday night, September 9 from the fifth annual Harvest Gathering with smiles glowing, hearts open, minds and souls awakened...

Musings: Passing of Elder Frank DeContie

Once again, for the fourth year, I attended Grandfather William Commanda’s spiritual gathering this August in Maniwaki, Quebec.

Musings: The Acceleration of Healing

Over the past several weeks, The Grafton News - our town weekly newspaper - has published a volley of emotional...

Seeing the Light through the Heart of an Indian : An Interview with Frank DeContie

Spirit of Change Reader's Request I first met Frank DeContie and his wife Sandra at our very first Harvest Gathering in 1997. Frank is an Algonquin ceremonial medicine keeper...

East Mirrors West - An interview with Yumiko Kohama

As Chairperson of the International Department of Earth Village Network, Japanese environmentalist Yumiko Kohama and staff

Taking the Kids for a Walk on the Wild Side: An Interview with Sharon Anderson

"The ancients knew something which we seem to have forgotten." ~ Albert Einstein I met Sharon Anderson for the first time at Harvest Gathering in 1997 at Mt. Washington, MA. Living in upstate Vermont near the Canadian border, Sharon had…