We are all life change artists, and we can continually, and successfully, reinvent ourselves. That’s the message of Kathleen Jordan and Fred Mandell in Becoming A Life Change Artist. I wish this book had been on my shelf when my deep purple mountains set off an earthquake, in my eighth-grade art teacher and in...
Medicine Song Woman leads me to a meditative state. That’s not easy, with this bouncing-ball mind in my head. Her music also brings back memories. I’m sitting in centuries-old cathedrals in France. Around me, believers genuflect and finger their rosaries. They repeat incomprehensible lines from a Latin mass. Glorious music rolls over us, reverberating...
Work in the field of community economic development made me a fan of Jeremy Rifkin, whose ideas always challenge the status quo. His most recent book, The Empathic Civilization, challenges conventional thinking about human nature. In this animated talk, Rifkin says new brain and neuropsychology research and child development “suggest we are actually soft...
This poem first appeared in Sheddings, a collection of poems by members of the Unitarian Fellowship of Kelowna. It was written by an extraordinarily talented poet, one who savors every word, its sound, its feel, its texture. Marilyn Raymond is also the author of Sunflowers, Baba Yaga, and Sucking on Stones. © 2007 Marilyn...
Marilyn Raymond is one of my favorite writers, always eloquent, perceptive, thoughtful. When she shared this poem with me, I asked her permission to publish it here. I get a catch in my throat every time I read it. Marilyn is also the author of That Apple, Baba Yaga, and Sucking on Stones. ©...
At the Unitarian Fellowship of Kelowna service last Sunday, Kelly Hamilton not only read this poem to us. She printed it in the bulletin, for all of us to take home in our hands as well as in our hearts. I love the images – the heat of memories cracking through the lava dome...
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