Seeds of Resilience
Through an extraordinary partnership of Zen practitioners and wildland firefighters, this essay explores how mindfulness and shared purpose cultivate resilience.
A New Ancestral Migration
A Choctaw author reframes migration through Indigenous wisdom, revealing how humanity's deepest journeys can lead from exile and loss to renewal and a shared positive future.
The Illusion of Control
In this excerpt from Trembling, Still, Stephen Jenkinson reflects on Parkinson’s disease, mortality, and the unraveling of modern fantasies of control. Fierce, lyrical, and unsentimental, the work asks what it means to live truthfully within uncertainty and diminishment.
The Unbroken Field
A contemplative essay weaving Tarthang Tulku’s Time–Space–Knowledge vision with quantum theory, grief, and the longing for coherence in a fractured world. Through personal loss, philosophical inquiry, and a search for belonging, the author explores how openness, interconnection, and spacious awareness may form a field large enough to hold human suffering and renewal.
Offering Deep Presence at the End of Life
Through her training at Upaya and service as a hospital chaplain, the author learns that chaplaincy is not a profession but a way of life. In moments of death, fear, and vulnerability, she discovers the power of presence—standing with others in their fire and finding her own promise to live.
The UN’s Next Role
Jem Bendell reflects on the disillusionment of UN staff confronting ecological, economic, and political breakdown. Rather than propping up failing systems, he urges a shift toward “collapse-aware” integrity: naming the storm, fostering resilience, and reclaiming the UN’s spirit of service as truth-telling, solidarity, and courage in darkening times.
Rupture and Reweaving
This gallery explores the deep bond between humans and the natural world through wearable art made of organic materials—grass, lace, kelp, bark. Each piece emerges from grief, resilience, and reverence, revealing nature as healer, muse, and mirror of our inner lives. A meditation on beauty, loss, and belonging.
Accompanied
Mary Putera offers the rare privilege of witnessing a painting’s emergence—moving from silence and devastation toward light and form. Each stage reveals art as a way of metabolizing grief and rediscovering Beauty, inviting us to presence pain and co-create the conditions for renewal.
Passing Time
As her son wakes with questions about black holes and infinity, the author follows him into a conversation that bridges astrophysics with ancestry, parenting with cosmic continuity. Interwoven with observations on grief, embodiment, and the passing of days, the piece reminds us that time is not only measured in minutes, but in meaning, and that children often hold the key to remembering how to live in the now.
Gaia Within | Choosing Care in an Unraveling World
Time might bring back the coral reefs and provide space for species that are not yet extinct to rebuild their populations. Forests could reclaim hillsides while birds, butterflies, and bees construct their nests and hives in their shade. But how can our species survive when we choose leaders who are blind to the living intelligence that created us?