Resonance on the range a symphony of feather and field birds sing a sea of sound joy at dusk abounds

don’t hesitate and don’t waver in the wind but be the tall tree in the farthest field who paints stars on canvas sky with a blush of her leaves and knows that sacred darkness blinds like the brightest light and that on the narrow road between them is a very high bridge where there is no word for down but only for out for free for start for today where the first breath is the embrace of what has been waiting there patiently and quietly by the side of the road bathed in the softest dust

Academics report their discovery that Rome was, in fact, built in a day! An April Fool’s Day spoof of a BBC-style news report that aired on KGNU Boulder. https://soundcloud.com/carah-wertheimer/rome-really-was-built-in-a-day

One day when my mother told me to clean my room, as she often did when I was little, I thought I’d finally found the perfect response to this ongoing oppression. “Why should I clean my room?” I said to her. “It’s just going to get dirty again.” I felt…

It’s Time to Respond to the Refugee Crisis We Helped Create — Refugees, aliens, immigrants, migrants, undocumented. Wanderers all. You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about people fleeing their homelands en masse on both sides of the Atlantic. How many perished in the latest capsized Mediterranean boat? Who’s paying for the U.S.-Mexico wall? Should we or shouldn’t we…

An Evening of Earth Wisdom with Elder Activist Joanna Macy — Joanna Macy, longtime Buddhist peace and environmental activist, scholar, and grandmother of deep ecology,* packed the house at the Boulder Shambhala Center, a local Buddhist hangout, in March, when she spoke about “The Time of the Great Unraveling.” Based on the response to my interview request, which was denied, I…

I have to admit that for a grown woman, I probably do more than my fair share of crying, often over something I wish were different about my life. Sometimes the tears are a cleansing release. …