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Greetings from Brushwood by Pride S. Wright

Holding Space  While life’s busy pull and your full plate won’t change, the universe will organize itself around and sustain you when you seek to create wholeness. By Trathen Heckman  

A Better Model  Collins Pine and its Collins Almanor Forest are a shining example of what can happen when a company makes environmental stewardship its organizing principle. By Pride S. Wright

Loves Me, Loves Me Not  We often enter into the most important experience of our lives--the life-long relationship--with little conscious focus or even an idea of what we want it to be. By Johanna Atman

Ripples  Step away from the snooze button! It’s time to embrace our common myth and better know how we’re bound together. By Trathen Heckman

The Revolution Will Not Be...Traumatic
Ease up on the angst, people! Become more aware of your contribution to the Cosmic stew. By Pride Scott Wright

Vision Quest  Colleen Gavan surrenders to a modern version of an age old Native American ritual in hopes of losing her mind.

An Epidemic of Busyness  Some practical suggestions from Dr. Johanna Atman on turning down the volume of modern life.

Taking it Slow  From garden to kitchen to table, a truly pleasurable approach to one of the most basic of human needs is becoming an exercise in virtuous globalization. By Colleen Gavan

Flowing  Check out this excerpt from Eric Alan's excellent book, Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path.

Genetically engineered food and the right to choose By Colleen Gavan

Enriched  Peace Corps Volunteer Tiffany Martindale lives in conditions most Americans would find intolerable, but the experience has blessed her beyond measure. A story of true abundance. 

Martin's Room  An excellent short story by Beth Pratt

Southern Exposure   From convents to ice caves, two exhilarating months of livin’ large in South America with Benjamin Fisher.

Our Great Estate  Millions of acres of wildlands are the legacy of every American, but the Bush Administration is putting them at risk. By John G. Mitchell (From Sierra Magazine. Click here for the Sierra Club's archive on the Bush administrations environmental record.) 

The Mighty Windbags  Thirty years ago, conservatives embarked on a plan to subvert journalism and skew America to the right. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. By David Brock (From Salon.com. This article can be accessed by viewing a brief ad, and it's well worth it!)

The Journey Home  If we treat the means of our awaking as something merely to be worn occasionally like some clever adornment, it will lose its deep meaning and limitless worth. By Hugh Prather


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