Dear ERTHAWARE Celebrants, In the northern hemisphere our spinning home-planet is tilted away from our solar hub, and the nights are long. Yes, for many of us it is Winter time, Solstice time, a time of reading and sipping Irish coffee before the fire. But it is also the time of observed Holy Days. So [continue reading…]
(8 photos celebrating autumnal light illuminating the tundra turf above tree-line.) Dear ERTHAWARE Pilgrims, Soon after Lynn and I were married 36 years ago, we spent 2 months visiting 9 countries in Europe. Near Rotterdam we picked up a re-built VW panel van with the back seat removed and a double-bed mattress thrown onto the [continue reading…]
Would Budweiser produce a TV ad for the Superbowl featuring old guys crouched with cameras among a meadow of alpine wildflowers? What does our media-driven consumer culture suggest is viral manly behavior? What perpetually portrayed messages shape our male emotional and spiritual formation? Dear ERTHAWARE Adventurers, As a celebration of the end of July the [continue reading…]
Dear ERTHAWARE Friends of Life on this little Planet, How tragically easy it is to pass through this brief life-time without seeing or knowing the exquisite tiny evidences of integral life on this gifted planet. This is the art of seeing the small in vital connection with the greater. (more about this thought towards the [continue reading…]
Dear ERTHAWARE fellow pilgrims, Forty years ago I remember seeing my right leg bones and knee on X-rays at an orthopedic clinic that was famous for repairing damage to the knees of college and professional athletes. Seeing those physical bones of my interior body had an interesting psychological affect. Beyond the culturally and mentally constructed [continue reading…]