Editor’s Desk: Stars: The Original Bestowers of Grace
“We are made of star stuff” is a phrase we’ve all heard many times. In a recent interview with cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D., author of Cosmogenesis: The Unveiling of the Expanding Universe, I was most impressed and became vividly aware of this wonderment. Indeed I am made of star stuff!!! He writes,…
Editor’s Desk: A Wider Landscape
Reverend Mary Manin Morrissey has said that anything in the world we can see in full bloom started as a seed. As I write this we’re entering the fourth decade since my husband Michael and I founded New Dimensions Media and Broadcasting Network. Looking back over those years I can…
Editor’s Desk: Wonder and Awe
In the past several years, a great deal of scientific and popular attention has been directed toward the experience of awe. For example, awe uniquely predicts indicators of the body’s inflammatory response, implicated in the onset and progression of various chronic diseases, cardiovascular disease, and depression; enhances critical thinking; and…
Editor’s Desk: MAKING CONNECTIONS WITH DEEP WISDOM
It‘s said that we each come into this world with a “Soul’s Assignment.” If this is true, then mine is to host these amazing interviews with wisdom leaders. To be “assigned” to immerse myself in the pages of their books and their work and then have the exceptional occasion of…
Editor’s Desk: Beginner’s Mind by Michael Toms
A letter written to a friend ten years ago following a Buddhist Retreat . . . . Recently, my six-and-a-half-year old grandson, Jeremy, asked me, “Pop-Pop, why do you like Buddhism?” Realizing in the moment that I was being challenged to transform my usual intellectual and well-reasoned reply to such…
Editor’s Desk: A Most Amazing Race
As some of you may know, in the past I’ve been an active horsewoman. My last horse was a thoroughbred I bought off the track as a three-year-old. I called him Long Time, as in a long time coming since I had such a beautiful horse. We did the Northern…
Editor’s Desk: Nature Renews the Spirit
I’ve had the enormous privilege to spend time for rest and recuperation at Yosemite National Park. In these turbulent and threshold times I find such a noble and awesome landscape a balm to my soul. Stately as ever, El Capitan’s granite rock face ceaselessly continues in its watchful stillness, guarding…
Editor’s Desk: PRAYERS FOR UKRAINE
As I write this, I’m sitting warm and well fed in the safety and comfort of my apartment as I watch Alexander Prokhorenko, an incredibly courageous and articulate restaurant owner, speaking live from Kyiv on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Feb 25, 2022. His is only one of…
Editor’s Desk: Being an Ally to Eradicate Racism
As many of you know, for the last two years I have participated in two anti-racism groups that come together once a month. We are a group of women sharing our experience and learnings regarding social justice. It has been a process for gaining insight and moving into trust…
Editor’s Desk: Everyday Miracles
My dear sister of my heart, Linda Merryman, with whom I’ve been in circle for more than 25 years sent out the following piece that she was inspired to write. I love it so much and I received her permission to share with all of you. I hope you relish…
