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Where Did You Come From?

Beginning with people’s interest in their ancestors, this blog returns us to our beginning on Earth and in the stars. This blog makes good use of quotes from authors who have expressed these realities memorably. It ends with our call to reinvent ourselves within the primacy of the Universe.

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The intimate bond: humans and dirt

Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” He could have said the same of mud pies, though it wouldn’t have sounded as delicious. But, before apples, the universe needed to invent dirt. Without it, we would not be here. Although dirt […]

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Ash Wednesday 2017 Stardust Ritual

This ritual supplements the usual Ash Wednesday practice of signing ourselves with ashes by remembering that everything came from generations of starbursts. It celebrates the fact that we are stardust, part of billions of years’ evolution, and thus one with one another and all creation. It includes special mention of earth/ dirt and the stardust […]

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The Solace of Deep Time

We can see deep time, and gain perspective from its daily presence, in the rock structures we travel by and through. The vast, open book of history that is now Utah is an excellent way to ponder Thomas Berry’s vision of the meaning of deep time. In these very challenging days, he offers us a […]

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The Big Chew Podcast

The Big Chew Podcast asks, “How do we live on Earth without the Stupid?” I talk with a wide range of guests–artists, permaculture folks, scientists, and educators–about reconnecting humans with the fascinating beings and processes of our planet and universe. The tone of the show is irreverent and vernacular while aiming for scientific accuracy. A […]

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Sowing seeds into the whirlwind

Learning, on yet another election night, that progress is not only not remotely linear, but that the way is often bewilderingly and heartbreakingly tortuous, I was reminded of Wendell Berry’s poem, February 2, 1968: In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in […]

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