Imagine, always having barely more than enough, seldom less than enough. How you could enjoy hours on the beach? On a ranch? On a mountain? Strumming your guitar? Making love? Exploring ideas? When they are enough, all these contemplative practices become so much more beautiful, and not because of theirContinue Reading

A typical definition of an ecosystem is “a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” Such definitions are focused upon ecosystems in all their material interconnectedness: this eats that, and its excrement feeds them, and so these grow while those decay, and so on in a myriad ofContinue Reading

The Chinese philosopher, Chuangtse, hearkens us back to that time, just after we slipped the bonds of the natural landscape, but before the human landscape enslaved us. “After the Tao (the Way) was lost, then arose the landmarks and pathways of humanity, justice, character, and manners.” Jesus, too, expected usContinue Reading