Musings: Animal Stories
I’ve shared my living space with companion animals for almost all my life.
I’ve shared my living space with companion animals for almost all my life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
For a culture obsessed with appearances and glamour, it is ironic how little value we place on beauty.
Despite all the visionary and spiritual ideas I work with everyday, I’m actually a very logical person.
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.
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.
"Think it's time we stop...hey...what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down..." —Buffalo Springfield
We arrived home Sunday night, September 9 from the fifth annual Harvest Gathering with smiles glowing, hearts open, minds and souls awakened...
Once again, for the fourth year, I attended Grandfather William Commanda’s spiritual gathering this August in Maniwaki, Quebec.
Over the past several weeks, The Grafton News - our town weekly newspaper - has published a volley of emotional...
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...
As Chairperson of the International Department of Earth Village Network, Japanese environmentalist Yumiko Kohama and staff
"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…
For about seven or eight years, Spirit of Change has received news articles about positive social and political...
Lately, the keyword for me has been "share." Funny how that book title from several years ago really does ring true...
For hundreds, or maybe even thousands of years, we have marked the end of our calendar year with a holiday season.