Dr. Michael Conforti and Dr. Renee Levi led a wonderful teleseminar today on the dynamic relationship between people and place. A question arose: “How do we build attunement to an emerging field in culture?” I add my voice to the conversation and have one answer to that question: Communion. Communion is people actively engaging with [...]
The Confluence Project is a 300-mile long public art installation spearheaded by artist/architect Maya Lin and Pacific Northwest tribes. They are joined by artists, architects, landscape designers, and civic groups to explore the crossroads of landscape, cultures, ecology and the region’s history. In seven communities along the Columbia River, the watery border between Oregon and [...]
Long ago and yesterday, a fisherman cast his net out and upon the blue ocean. His people fished these waters as long as any one could remember. The winds blew softly and his boat bobbed gently. Everything was just as it should be, he thought to himself. Just then his net began to writhe, suddenly, [...]
I have been in hibernation. Summer is not the time we think of for going inward, it would seem extending day light, heat, and the propensity for play are the extroverted barricade to prevent such reflection. Maybe my inward journeying is cellular memory of my Finnish bones who still hear the call from 600 years [...]
“Hiwa-Kai. Please save for the lovely lady who most certainly will return.” This handwritten note was taped on a brown bag behind the counter at Peet’s. I had made a quick–possibly desperate–run for coffee Sunday morning when I discovered we had none for breakfast. Hiwa Kai? I knew that was no coffee name, as I [...]
Fire is one of the oldest shrine offerings. Indeed Fire is life force itself. Archeologists tell us the first hearths appeared 400,000 years ago. Ever since fire has lengthened the days, cooked food, provided heat, and forged tools. It is no wonder all spiritual cultures associate light and fire with the gods – flaming heart [...]
