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Calm Acceptance
The buzz of children around me in the elementary school can inspire fear or be met with calm acceptance. My child singing This Land is Your Land on repeat can be et with annoyance, or included in the infinite miniscule dance of water molecules and organisms that make up my body, her body, and the…
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December 28 Drafting workshop
In Ki Sayings, Koichi Tohei Sensei writes about Fudoshin… Like the steadiness of a spinning top, the state of perfect spiritual and physical stability arises from movement which continues infinitely and is so infinitely rapid it is imperceptible. (Tohei, 2018)
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I December 28 Drafting workshop
It’s cold! Lets draw some plants and birds, and also….water! According to Popular mechanics, and the National Science Foundation, the water in our bodies is older than the sun. It came to earth by means of meteor and comet impacts when the planet was a roiling mess of volcanoes. ——————– When I meditate, I find a Ki…
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December Drafting Workgroup
December 28 Nature Journaling Whitaker ponds (Portland, Or) 4-5pm (golden hour!) It’s cold! Lets draw some plants and birds, and also….water! According to Popular mechanics, and the National Science Foundation, the water in our bodies is older than the sun. It came to earth by means of meteor and comet impacts when the planet was a roiling…
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I wear my heart. I protect my body.
What are your two favorite things to wear? I love wearing clothing that shows solidarity with ending genocide. And also clothing that keeps me warm. I am privileged to find comfort in nature connection and alliance with the universal molecules that make up my body. I have power to connect and that connection makes small,…
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What principles define how you live? I try to be the hero of my own story. I want to help the largest number of people achieve prosocial, ecologically supportive autonomy possible. However, I ignored or abandoned my health to the degree that my body and mind began failing, I became wracked by chronic debilitating migraines…
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What tattoo do you want and where would you put it? I want a tattoo of my brand on both wrists like bracelets. But spending any cash on tattoos has never been my priority.
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Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it? I got a white stuffed unicorn at a skating birthday party when I was seven. I brought it with me to college and it had a place of honor until my child turned 5, when I sewed the head onto…
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What was the last thing you did for play or fun? I went to see went to see the boy in the Heron with my partner. It was a wonderful movie about time travel and Alternate worlds. It made me think about how Miyazaki always writing versions of himself and his daughters and his wife…
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How much would you pay to go to the moon? I would not want to go to the moon unless there was an extinction event that made earth unlivable. My favorite sci-fi series that explores this scenario is the Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal. The lead character is a 1950s mathematician who is…
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