Luminalogue

Three Bits of Bright News

Harrison Owen, the founder of Open Space Technology, has a new blog, Work-In-Progress.

The marvelous Anne Stadler has published a new little book, Burnished by Love.

Parker Palmer will be on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal this Friday, February 20^th, to engage in a conversation that attemp ts to put our current crisis in something other than an economic or political frame, as well as share a bit of his work with The Center for Courage & Renewal.

Enjoy these bright lights! 

The Bright Door...

Another marvelous post entitled "The Source of Rainbows" by Bob Brady at PureLand Mountain...

"It comes to me in the knife-edge cold of the winter night, out here on the deck for one last look at the stars before sleep, that what we all need, what we all seek in the streets and rooms, meadows and museums of our ways, is a place to wonder. Not to be taught, but to wonder. Not to be told, but to wonder: completely from and by ourselves. Where are those places but out in the nature of things, as out in the winter beneath the stars without explanation? Where but in the sudden realization of how remote we are in the vastness we are one with, and in that wall of sudden awareness discover the bright door that opens in ourselves; then to walk through..."

Drenched in beautiful light...

Thanks, Thomas for sending this beautiful bit of brilliance to me...

Birthday Wish

I've always loved this excerpt from Jacob Needleman's A Little Book on Love....

..We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.  And we are born as well for suffering, not the suffering that leads to madness but the suffering that leads to joy: the struggle with ourselves and our illusions.  We are born to overcome ourselves, and through that overcoming to find an inner condition of great harmony and being.  We are born for that--we are not yet that.  We are searchers; that is the essence of our present humanness.

And in love we have the possibility and the need to help each other search...

Here's to another year of meaningful suffering and joy...may we all embrace the possibility and the need to help each other search...

Ashes and Snow

Truly transcendent, breathtakingly beautiful...ashes and snow... immerse yourself and imagine how the world could be...

Dancing Wombat

Some of you may have had the pleasure of meeting this fellow, but just in case you haven't (or if you'd like to meet again), Diane Brandon was kind enough to send this quirky, thoughtful link that made me grin: http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml. 

Check your dance card and save a dance for the Dancing Wombat...

World on Fire...

Inspiring, thought-provoking music from Sarah McLachlan...wow.

http://www.worldonfire.ca 

Enjoy!