Our eyes met for the first time across a crowded room in La Jolla many years ago. She was adding to her expertise as a yoga teacher, and I was hoping to get some relief from a painful pinched nerve as I struggled to add restorative yoga to my movement resources. Rolled our eyes, we … More Bloom where you are planted…
“Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.”–Dr. Jane Goodall As educators we know that the true name of the animal in the title of this essay is “sea star,” and most … More It matters to the starfish…
No one has been a better steward of our world than Vivan Gussin Paley, who left us on July 26, 2019. As a very young teacher and mother, I discovered her work, beginning with Wally’s Stories. Paley worked with young children, many of them challenged with emotional wounds from their home lives. She spent her … More Vivian Gussin Paley: Helping our world through listening to children.
“Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?”–Jane Goodall. Science has informed people throughout human existence. Knowledge of our living systems allowed humans to survive under the most challenging conditions. Professor John Birdsell at UCLA taught us that the least … More One Flower at a Time…
As humans on this planet, we are linked to life in glorious complexity. Educators and parents teach about the importance of ecosystems in our world: complex communities woven together to support each other’s growth. Watch a young child play outdoors, and you begin a journey of mindfulness and scientific inquiry about ecosystems. Each blade of … More Cultivating compassion through nature…
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(Photo from National Archives) I will never forget the gaze of those human beings with such emaciated bodies. As a little girl, I saw newsreels of concentration camp victims. These were people whom I knew were connected to me in some way, although no one I knew personally was part of that horrific tragedy. Perhaps … More It’s not about politics, and it matters.
