Humans flourish when we expose ourselves to diverse experience: our worldview expands when we live, learn, and work in diverse communities; our digestion works better when we eat a wide variety of food; our bodies are more balanced when we move in lots of different ways; and our spirits are lifted when we lay our eyes on fresh landscapes.
Read moreBeing Open
While many of us have continued posture and breathing yoga practices to help us feel open throughout the pandemic, the felt sense of "openness" seems even more accessible when the broader environment mirrors it.
Read moreHope Is In The Air
What does hope feel like in the spring of 2021? Damp ground revealed by snowmelt. Softer temperatures warming the skin. The rumbling engine of a school bus rounding the corner. And a barely-felt needle in the arm to unlock a less anxious, more free near future.
Read moreThe beautiful doldrums
In our exhaustion, we hope we never have to live through a winter like this one again. But what if we never do get to live through a winter of imposed quiet like this one again? Will there be anything in retrospect that we long for?
Read moreIt's 2021, are we better yet?
If you woke up each morning this week thinking it was supposed to feel different, we're sympathetic. And if you feel the heaviness this morning that our world is still profoundly unpredictable, unprecedented, and unstable, we're with you.
Read moreSoft Determination
The humble snowdrop, our region's earliest flowering bulb, may offer inspiration to anyone who spies it rise up against the frozen earth's surface later this winter.
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