FORGIVENESS — for my father Thinking about you— I want to cry and cringe. You are so unfair And unaware of the things You do—-how you had Cut the chords that connected us Like falling from an airplane Without a parachute— Something you’d seen In the Marine Corps And I don’t want to crash and burn— Become a monument to a tumultuous time. But […]
Forgiveness | MOON Shine
“Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either—or both—when needed?” – Gordon B. Hinckley “Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.” – William Paul Young “As I walked out the door toward […]
Make it rain | Shamanism for our times
“Shamanism…really? “With all that we’ve got to be concerned about, you’re devoting an entire issue of The MOON to shamanism? “Well then, you’d better make it rain.” The above might have been my response to this month’s theme just 10 short years ago. I had little patience with poncho-wearing, rattle-shaking, indigenous wannabes claiming to be shamans. I’ve since come to think that shamanism might be the most urgent topic on […]
Movies you might’ve missed | Plant intelligence
The Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 documentary made about the 1973 book of the same name by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book created quite a stir with its presentation of research making the case that plants are indeed sentient, despite their apparent lack of a nervous system and a brain. Although mainstream scientists debunked most of the book’s and movie’s claims, current research is reinvigorating them based […]
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