I am noticing how finely attuned my senses are right now, to the sounds, the smells, the buzzing life of the earth all around me. I went into the Meditation Hall, knelt by the altar and said my prayer: Until I awaken, I take refuge in the buddha (the light within), the dharma (my teachers …
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Arcosanti revisited
Once again I find myself mysteriously, in a place of pure Love…built plank by plank by one man’s will and vision, as a gift to the community and the future. And as it is, pure Love, it is crazy and beautiful, extreme and irrational, crumbling and decaying and fertile and fecund, sensuous and heart-achingly beautiful…a …
Going Car-Free
<<delivered at The Great Turning: the Be The Change Unconference, May 23, 2009>> My name is Carmen Mills. I am a Vancouver-centered Director of Free Will. I am really stoked about the fact that people are finally starting to figure out that we can actually reclaim our freedom by letting go of our cars. A …
My body knows
Even my body, my poor klutzy body, the body that hid from gym class, the body that ducks baseballs, the body that is wobbly and injured and aging, the body that loves coffee and cheesecake and a grilled sausage on a bun – While my brain lunges and snaps for elusive rationale, My body, my …
Unveiling
Back from my dad’s “unveiling” in Toronto – that’s a Jewish thing, a year after someone’s death, the unveiling of their gravestone. Family stuff, you know – surreal and wacky and painful and aggravating as shit — are everyone’s relatives as fucked up and crazy as mine?! (rhetorical question). Family stuff. Death is all around …