Finding Our Way Home
Do you ever find yourself coming back to something—a painting, a poem, a place in the landscape or an old photograph but not knowing why...
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Virginia Woulfe-Beile
- Apr 5
- 1 min
A Clean Renewable Current of Hope
If there is to be a current of hope, it needs to ride on a renewable wave, a watt that does not harm A current that runs in both...
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Betsy Slosar
- Mar 28
- 5 min
Creative Imagination to Combat Climate Change
A restrictive illness during January and February kept me sidelined. When CCC emails started arriving with plans for this year’s “40...
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Max Pohlman
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Benign Presence
Every civilization has its Great Work to do depending on the circumstances in which it is embedded, according to cultural historian...
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- Mar 9
- 5 min
Comedic Genius
My friend Max and I share a love of Rob Brezny’s work. His nearly 400-page tome called PRONOIA is filled with zany optimism, which...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Mar 1
- 1 min
A Reminder
Who knew What a wild liberation awaits In the simple act Of choosing Contentment? I slow down and see myself As worthy And whole, And all...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Feb 28
- 2 min
The Story of Enough
In years past, the Confluence Climate Collaborative has invited our community to join us in observing the Lenten season as 40 Days of...
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Toni Oplt
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Her Name is River
Originally published on greengalmidwest.com Her name is River. She runs forever forward, never longing for the past, feeling no fear of...
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Toni Oplt
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Enter Lent with the Confluence Climate Collaborative.... On a Current of Hope.
Hope? Is there really room for hope on a dying planet, beached in dry riverbeds, dripping down melting sheets of ice, trapped within...
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wisdom669
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
All We Can Save
Thank you all for joining us on this year's Lenten journey. We hope you will join us next Sunday for our Spring into Healing event to...
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Toni Oplt
- Apr 14, 2022
- 5 min
There is No Place Like Home
It is late afternoon, and I am walking along a hiking trail. Then, I stop, transfixed by a shaft of light falling through the interior of...
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Betsy Slosar
- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
Connecting The Dots
Throughout my adult life, in both my career and volunteering, I’ve been drawn to efforts that work to change social problems by getting...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 4 min
Home
My Daddy was an ornery man who drank too much, cussed up a blue streak and was hot-tempered. He was determined though, that wherever we...
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Virginia Woulfe-Beile
- Apr 11, 2022
- 4 min
Wisdom of the Ancestors
I’ve already given away much for my early life experience and relationship with ecology in my “Save” post when I penned “ I live in the...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Apr 10, 2022
- 2 min
Come as you are
The Confluence Climate Collaborative was a newly-formed group when I was asked to provide some technical support in establishing the...
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Max Pohlman
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Awakening
Members of the Confluence Climate Collaborative first met during the discussion course “A World of Health: Connecting People, Place, and...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Apr 8, 2022
- 2 min
Consumer Fast
Can you buy nothing for 7 days? As we're nearing the end of our Lenten observance, we invite you to participate in what we are calling a...
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Virginia Woulfe-Beile
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
Save
My Heart is moved by all I cannot save: So much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those Who age after age, perversely, With...
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Max Pohlman
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Can
Today we explore the word CAN in the title of our book All We Can Save. I want to begin this reflection with the closing lines of this...
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Betsy Slosar
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
We
All. WE. Can. Save. Our group has been slowly making our way through the book All We Can Save as a framework for our “40 Days” and toward...
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