In the preface to her book, Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma, Sister Dang Nghiem recounts a revelatory experience she had a few years back. After the Buddhist retreat she’d just taught was over, Nghiem was exhausted. But in deference to her hosts, she accompanied them to a garden behind their church to watch the evening primroses bloom. After … [Read more...]

Scorpio can be scary. It’s the shadows that lurk beneath the surface, the ferocity of feelings we dare not express, the stark reality of death. Yet it’s also the resilience and quiet power of the serpent, a creature which sheds its skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites attached to their old skin. We’re all in a process similar to this as we approach … [Read more...]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a mass twice the size of Texas, made up of trillions of pieces of plastic trash. Metastasizing for years in international waters, it was an out-of-control problem for which nobody had a solution. Until The Ocean Cleanup arrived on the scene. Founded in 2013 by Dutch whiz-kid Boyan Slat at the tender age of 18, the non-profit … [Read more...]

We all need love in one form or another! In 2015, a 3 ½ pound wallaby (a petite variety of kangaroo) was found by the side of a road in Grafton, New South Wales. He may have been tiny, but this youngster had an instinct for survival. He bravely walked up to a potential rescuer and held out his arms asking to be picked up. No one knows why Doodlebug (as he was later named) … [Read more...]

When Viola Davis, sculpted and strengthened after  months of training, first stood in the garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African soil, it was the apex of not just the seven-year push to produce The Woman King, but of a lifelong battle to fully express her warrior nature. “Whenever you’re doing anything new,” Davis told the AP News, “it requires … [Read more...]