We live in a complex, adaptive system that is intricately interconnected. It’s a multidimensional web of life. A small change in this seemingly chaotic soup can and does affect the whole when it’s focused on key points. The late anticipatory design scientist R. Buckminster Fuller often talked about the…

In these most turbulent threshold times, many of us wake up feeling anxious and troubled. These feelings are shared by hundreds of millions of others in the collective unconscious. When I feel overwhelmed by such feelings of despair, I try to remember the practice, “Joy is the Medicine.” It is…

From the moment I arrive at my desk it seems I am being constantly interrupted and diverted from my “to-do” list and doing someone else’s work. I find a three-headed monster, an energy-draining taskmaster waiting for me. One head is all the phone messages that need attention, the second is…

Imagine tossing a pebble into a still pool and watching the circles of ripples that it creates. Think of our lives as that pebble and all our actions rippling out far beyond our personal lives. Each act of kindness, even in this moment, may be having profound consequences unknown to…

A former guest on New Dimensions, Leslie Curchack is a nature photographer and creator of the 2025 wall calendar, “In Love with the Earth.” Here I’m sharing, with her permission, her most inspiring narrative about exploring a sea cave. – Justine               Dear Friends-…

I have moved from despair and bewilderment to starting to be curious to know what Spirit is up to with this surprising election outcome. I’m trying to widen my lens of perception to understand the larger good that will come out of all of this. In the meantime, I have…

With the deluge of media frenzy around the election and all the various polls that toss us hither and yon on the relentless seas of election reports and polls, I continue to be on pins and needles. I remember so vividly the 2016 elections and tuning in after the polls…

  Life Strategies Simplified We’ve had the immense pleasure of hanging out with William McDonough, winner of three U.S. presidential awards including the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. He’s an architect by training and philosopher by temperament and is co-author with Michael Braungart, of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We…

  Are you having trouble with your relationship with the platforms you are accessing on your smartphones, computers, iPads, etcetera? Are you encountering the frustration that I’m feeling as more and more of them are becoming automated? It wasn’t so long ago when working in a physical office situation that…

Recently a dear circle sister, Rosemary Williams, after a four-point pubic bone fracture that required more than a year of rehabilitation, declared in a prayer that she was ready to rejoin life and requested a playmate to join her. She spoke these words to the mysterious yet responsive universe: “I…