BeautyDialogues

New Wave

I saw something wonderfully hopeful in the paper the other day - an announcement of a new all-woman-run non-profit - GreenStone Media - which aims to provide something called 'respect radio' to the listening public. I love that there are beginning to be alternatives to the polemic model of radio journalism/conversation.

Goethe on Beauty

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tiny Things

I was sitting in ceremony last weekend with my friends & colleagues from the TLG, contemplating a question facing us about Restoring Wholeness. We'd each found a spot to think and be silent beside a little stream, and I chose one in the sun at the base of a tall slim tree.

Busy at my task of thinking and being silent :-) it took me a few minutes to slow down. When I did, I started to notice things. I saw the lazy shadows of water-skimmers on the bottom of the creekbed, a brilliant butterfly skuttered past on my left, and with a start - I suddenly saw these tiny delicate leaf skeletons that were all around me.

In this Moment

This last Friday Craig & Patricia Neal from the Minnesota-based Heartland were here for September's  Thought Leader Gathering, the every-other-monthly invitational event that I help produce with the Neals & Firehawk & Pele of Resonance.

The conversation starter, Mal Warwick of BSR and SVN, was wonderful as each and every one of them have been since we started these evolutionary dialogues back in 1999, but it is immediately clear that the TLG experience goes far beyond the specifics of any given conversation starter.

Connections

I was on Zaadz - an interactive platform dedicated to fostering collective spiritual conversation - last night and found myself wondering about the value of these forums... 

Neighborhood Beauty

Every day while taking my morning walk I am reminded of a plan I once hatched to print up a small pad of paper with a gorgeous image or two & the words 'In Gratitude' printed on it...

Simple Beauty in Reno

I spent part of this Labor Day weekend in Reno with good friends, sharing a lovely afternoon swimming in the Truckee River in downtown Reno (it's true!) and hiking in the Sierra's Lake Basin area.

I also managed a few minutes alone with their beautiful daughter who is off to college this year. She showed me a couple of short films she made from clips & stills she'd taken with her digital camera on trips to Paris and Ashland Oregon.

Neolithic Art

You'll know if you've read any of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue blog posts that every morning at this wonderful event was begun in ceremony, with Anne Dosher calling on the eleven directions. I was particularly struck by her evocation to the SW, addressing the Stone People, Guardians of Dreams.