by suzukiwebmaster | Oct 19, 2020 | Developing Resilience, Personal Reflections
by Jill Schroder Joy and delight, enthusiasm and lightheartedness are good for our health, our immune systems, and have trickle-down benefits for everybody and everything we come in contact with. I find that when I focus on joy and delight, love and light, my energy...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 12, 2020 | Seeking Clarity, Species & Ecosystems
by Leyla Acaroglu — Condensed with permission from “Problem Solving Desperately Needs Systems Thinking,” originally published at Medium June 26, 2018. Most of us are taught, from a young age, that in order to solve a problem, we simply need to break it down to its...
by suzukiwebmaster | May 5, 2020 | Developing Resilience
by Emrys Westacott The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two millennia. And it still...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 24, 2020 | Green Perspective, Personal Reflections
by Lillian Ireland Walking through the woods at dusk, The silence seems to pierce the ‘ifs’ and ‘whens’ and ‘whys’ and other endless thoughts. A quiet overtakes my soul as I hear the nearby gurgling stream, It doesn’t question...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 29, 2020 | Advocacy, Opinions, Seeking Clarity
by Julia Maskivker For far too long, the accepted wisdom among scholars of politics has been that the interests of the individual and the interests of society are not in harmony when it comes to voting. The American economist Anthony Downs, in his foundational book An...