March: Nature

Posts this month look to nature as a source and an inspiration for growing trust. Sometimes nature’s inspiration for growing trust is fearsome – nature actually causing us to feel and recognize our fear and want to find ways out of it. Sometimes its inspiration is in its gentle modeling of trust, which becomes itself a source of our trust’s growth.

Meditations

March focus: Nature An introduction to this month’s theme
Small steps into the wilds The value of small steps into the wilds of our world and of our own souls
More small steps A meditation on climbing out of our personal boxes
Stand still. Let the forest find you. For those who need permission to stop and receive what’s already being offered.
Life is more than a mess Questioning the common assumption that life is only a mess.
Seasons are universal. Treat yours uniquely. On honoring our inner seasons and avoiding their comparisons with others’.
Tending Trust at Earth’s Bedside Five pathways toward trust in relation to human-caused ecological destruction
March Resource Round-up A collection of trust-nourishing resources related to nature

Rituals

Water Bowl Stones A ritual for responding to natural disasters

Interviews

Christine Valters Paintner of Abbey of the Arts (abbeyofthearts.com)
Carol Tatsumi of Torrance, California

Songs

How nature heals us A reflection that accompanies Sting’s Lithium Sunset
On interconnection A reflection on interconnection accompanied by Cyprian Consiglio’s Moon In My Body
Seasons are universal. Treat yours uniquely. On honoring our inner seasons and avoiding their comparisons with others’. The Weepies’ song, Hideaway, is used as illustration.

 

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