Occupation: Author Birth: September 8, 1955
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through ….
When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'..
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnec….
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is t….
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about ….
I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and compreh….
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair..
To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things..
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power..
Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think..
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists,….
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our….
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find..
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ….
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the deser….
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vul….
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from..
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, a….
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmeri….
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we mi….
A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want….