It is said that any person who is an adherent of the Chinese goddess of compassion, Kuan Yin, is willing to keep the cries of the world alive. The sadness of broken places pervades the Earth. Those who are willing to face those places, to offer them love and attention, to make wild, spontaneous acts of beauty for them are of this lineage.
Image Credit:
- Strickland GEx Gas Tanks: Christi Strickland
MORE RADICAL JOY REVEALED
Beauty and Terror
Polly Howells of Glenford, New York writes of her confrontation with two great forces: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still [...]
“Affection for an Unwelcome Guest”—Our Global Day of Mourning
“How do we stay in affectionate relationship with an unwelcome guest?” mused Francis Weller. The unwelcome guest he was referring to is COVID-19, and Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, was speaking on the [...]
The Cure for COVID is Medicine for the Earth
A recent edition of Toronto’s Globe and Mail featured an article with a bold, yet fundamentally obvious point of view: curing COVID will take more than a vaccine; it demands a new relationship with the Earth. The [...]