Art and the Dark Sun of Consciousness: Bilbao’s L’Art En Guerre Perhaps there could not be a more appropriate venue for the French art show L’Art En Guerre France, 1938-1947, than the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum. The show features artists, both famous and unknown, who painted throughout the occupation of France by Germany during the Second World War…. Read more »
“Wild is what happened when white man arrived,” I once heard Native American scholar Greg Sarris say. Today as I walk these ancient Spanish paths that interlace several remote, abandoned villages throughout the southern Pyrenees of the Sobarbre area, I broaden the statement: wild is what too often happens when a people who have… Read more »
I do not belong to this land. I feel it in my bones as I climb the paved paths of the Camino de Santiago through the Pyrenees, the path ever extending toward Galicia and onward to Santiago and the sea. The scenery is stunning; the Basque houses neat and uniform in design: bulky white with… Read more »
Along the trail Traveling with Aldo Leopold is a kind of pilgrimage, a focused awareness of what is present, and, once this is developed, feeling a participant with it. Hiking along one the most ancient pilgrimage trails on earth, Camino de Santiago (and only portions of it), I brought only one book, my old (and… Read more »
David and I in conversation at the Brower Center in February 2012 Conversations with David Abram and a Review February 2012 David Abram, deep-ecologist, philosopher, and magician extraordinaire, and author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and I joined in conversation in a C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco event at the David Brower… Read more »
Hairy Woodpecker Cornell Lab of Ornithology The Saturday afternoon of the Geography of Hope Conference on Aldo Leopold sponsored by Point Reyes Bookstore last weekend, offered field trips. I chose the Mt. Wittenberg hike because it was strenuous and one of my favorite hikes in the world. As it turned out, to use one of… Read more »
Further Reflections on the Pow Wow One cannot hear the drums nor watch the young dancers bedecked in hoof rattles and colorful bird feathers without, upon returning home, listening closer to the whispers across the meadow. Are these the whispers of those who for 10,000 years walked the paths I follow daily, camped along what… Read more »
Filmmaker Beth Nelson and Suscol Council Executive Director Charlie Toledo on Opening Night. Napa Valley Opera House was well populated Tuesday evening, February 19, 2013, for the premier showing of two locally produced films: Awakening Healing Voices of Our Ancestors: A Destiny Reclaimed and The Sky is the Roof. Filmmaker Beth… Read more »
What is it that we do when we “awaken” a sacred site? What, exactly, are we awakening? This is a question whose answer grows within the cells of my body as I live it, a question reawakened after visiting the Serpent Mound in Ohio. While it is true that all land is sacred, some land… Read more »
Sacred Sites: The Great Serpent Mound, Part Three Paths to sacred sites are often circuitous. This was especially true for us the first day we approached The Great Serpent Mound of southern Ohio. Five of us women who had done spiritual work together gathered for most of a week in September 2012, with the stated intention… Read more »
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