so say :: the Indigo Girls

change is HARD, so you ~ take what you can get from it ~ THAT is what you get
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npr • on being :: Joanna Macy

ancestors' wisdom ~ show up and love this world ~ solidarity

npr • on being :: Gordon Hempton

endangered silence ~ it's not the absence of sound ~ it's absence of NOISE 
meet gordon hempton ~ acoustic ecologist ~ silence activist
tonal quality ~ i never REALLY listened ~ think-tank of the soul
poetics of space ~ professional listener ~ last quiet place
don't anticipate ~ there's no purpose but great joy ~ silence feeds our soul 
 just take it ALL in ~ who we are is what we hear ~ one square inch dot org

npr • on being :: Christian Wiman

imagination ~ keeps opening me up to ~ eccentric heavens

npr • on being :: Mario Livio

passion for science ~ our expanding universe ~ core sense of wonder

npr • on being

buddhist scientist ~ that is what i could become! ~ monk philosopher

that magnificent madman

teacher and preacher ~ that magnificent madman ~ pastor jesus christ

npr • on being

cardinal of choice ~ speak truth with humility ~ that's frances kissling

npr • on being

change at the margins ~ there is good in 'the other' ~ learning to listen

speaking of faith

Bittersweet Season ~ re-examining the time ~ between fine, and dead