Editor’s Desk: What Would Love Do?
I recently had the opportunity to sit down once again with spiritual teacher Guy Finley. His newest book is entitled Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together. While reading the book and preparing for the interview, I was reminded that it has been over five years since Michael Toms, my partner for…
Editor’s Desk: Dancing at the Traffic Light
During a recent power outage, a traffic light near my apartment complex was temporarily out of commission and could only flash a red stop signal to all lanes. This is an intersection where 6 lanes of traffic flowing north and sound cross 6 lanes of traffic flowing east and west.…
Editor’s Desk: Summer Solstice
Even though I am usually a night-owl, I made the commitment to participate in a Sunrise Solstice walk on June 21st. Not wanting to miss my most unaccustomed 3:30 am wake up call, I slept fitfully and even got myself out of bed before the alarm sounded. Anticipating not wanting…
Editor’s Desk: When a Shock or a Setback is a Gift
Today’s news reporting is relentlessly bombarding us with pictures and stories of shocking events such as school shootings, the repeal of protective regulations that safeguard our common good, incidents of racism, and other reports of discrimination. Our serenity takes a hit as it is tossed hither and yon on the…
Humanity’s Creative Spirit
Taking a break from the relentless torrent of political news, I recently tuned in to an interview that Christiane Amanpour conducted on PBS with historians David Olusoga and Simon Schama, the principal contributors to an extraordinary and far ranging TV series Civilizations, a PBS/BBC collaboration that examines the formative role…
Editor’s Desk: Earth Circle — Visualize Well-Being for All
Recently, a listener reached out to us and asked if Earth Circle was continuing to happen. It has been quite a while since we’ve reminded our listeners about this virtual coming together to focus on unity, positive change, peace, and the well-being of all life and for all peoples on…
The Secrets of the Universe Appearing in the Mirror of Our Perception
My late partner, Michael Toms, and I met with Dorothy and Jim Fadiman for over 40 years. For the most part these were intimate gatherings for deep conversations that just happened to be in the presence of microphones so that thousands of others could “listen in.” A brief rundown of…
Editor’s Desk: A View from India
In January we aired an interview with Sam Daley-Harris, founder of Results, an international grassroots citizen’s lobby committed to healing the break between people and government and creating a political win. Our dialogue included such subjects as how we might move beyond feelings of helplessness and resignation regarding the deep…
Editor’s Desk: Something to Feel Good About
I closely followed the recent Alabama senatorial race and outcome. Alabama is my ancestral home and I’m a proud graduate of Auburn University (War Eagle!). As many of you know, while living in Alabama in my 20s I was teaching in an all-black school in Sylacauga, Alabama when Dr. Martin…
Editor’s Desk: Talking it Through
This essay is a reprint that first published in a World Cafe blog http://www.theworldcafe.com. It is more relevant today than when first published. – Justine Willis Toms (essay reprinted with permission) “We must tend communicative space, design our Cafés, search for the deepest questions that open gateways to the future,…
