Empty Bus Seats Honor Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, a black seamstress named Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to move when the bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white [...]
SEWING THE STORIES OF GRIEF AND TRAUMA
The fabric art above was made by a young woman who was 16 years old when she was abducted, raped, beaten, and held captive in Congo. She became pregnant and gave birth. Because the parents of [...]
Warrior Woman for the Missing
This week's story comes from a woman called Thyme Eternity, who lives in British Columbia. Her heartbreak over the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls took a newly personal turn two [...]
The Border Wall That’s Beautiful
Ever since he ran for office, Donald Trump has been boasting that he would build a wall between Mexico and the United States strong enough to keep immigrants away. According to Trump, those who are [...]
The Land of Sorrow
Ireland is traditionally known as ‘the land of saints and scholars’. As I planned how I could bring joy to wounded places, I wondered if in more recent times it is becoming 'the land of [...]
“All We Do Matters”
"All we do matters," wrote Judy Todd of NatureConnect NW after the Global Earth Exchange she and friends held for the Sandy River near Portland, Oregon last Saturday. And as people around the world showed at [...]
A Bird for the Rafters
Lissa has been able to join us in Moscow and get some distance from the social upheaval in Haiti.* The clay bird she made today has found its way into the rafters of our back [...]
Afghan Peace Volunteers Global Earth Exchange
As usual, young members of the Afghan Peace Volunteers worked together in their permaculture garden in Kabul. The mission of the Afghan Peace Volunteers is as follows: We believe that revolution for a better world is [...]
Ceremony for the Land We Thought We Knew
Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, has been offering programs in creative expression, healing and health, and mind-body-spirit practices for more than forty years. Thousands of people have had life-changing experiences on those grounds, both [...]