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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- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
All
Thank you for joining us for 40-Days of Kindness! We are well past the ½ way mark and entering new territory. At the beginning of our...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Apr 2, 2022
- 1 min
Big Picture
Sustainability is a beautiful term, and one that inevitably comes up in conservations about being kinder to the planet. The environmental...
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Toni Oplt
- Apr 1, 2022
- 3 min
Empty Opportunity
For years, from my upstairs window, I clocked the seasons by a giant stately oak who stood in my neighbors' backyard. For more than 20...
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Betsy Slosar
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
The Great Turning
To be sure, "sharing" is a part of reconnecting with the world and each other. I offer this poem, or essay presented as poem, for all who...
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Max Pohlman
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min
Ecstatic
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I'm just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some...
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Max Pohlman
- Mar 29, 2022
- 1 min
Native
Are you familiar with the saying “Bloom where you are planted”? Maybe blooming where you have NOT been planted is an idea worth pursuing....
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Betsy Slosar
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
A word-team, ‘Care/take care of' and ‘frugality’
Last year, our ‘40-days of Lent’ focused on loving what we have, which included taking care of our belongings and of course our planetary...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Mar 26, 2022
- 1 min
Compassion
Kindness and connection to the world must start from within. Our minds are amazing, but we must always remember to balance them with our...
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Lynn Beaumont
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Consciousness
The human brain is an incredible thing. We take for granted our capacity for comprehension and communication, but think about it for a...
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