Natural Beauty

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Walking on lion colored hills...

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                           "Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills
                      with only cypresses for company, 
                      until the sunset caught me, turned the brush
                      to copper
                      set the clouds 
                      to one great roof of flame 
                      above the earth,
                      so that I walk through fire, beneath fire,
                      and all in beauty. 
                      Being alone
                      I could not be alone, but felt
                      (closer than flesh) the presence of those
                      who once had burned in such transfigurations.
                      My happiness ran through the centuries
                      in one continual brightness.  Looking down,
                      I saw the earth beneath me like a rose
                      petaled with mountains,
                      fragrant with deep peace." 

                      Elizabeth Coatsworth, On the Hills, 1924 

Life

Reshaping life! People who can say that they have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. 

—Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" 

Image: Tadashi Namba, "Mount Hiei," Japan, 1986 

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Woman Shaman - trailer from Max Dashu

Published on Apr 15, 2013

A new video by Max Dashú explores the rich cultural record of medicine women, seers, oracles, healers, trance-dancers, shapeshifters, and dreamers, around the world. Her double dvd set on order at:

www.suppressedhistories.net/womanshamand­vd.html

To experience the beauty, power and wisdom of these spiritual legacies is medicine for the spirit. Trailer includes the music of Suzanne Teng, Emmalee Crane, and Tiokasin Ghosthorse; scores of other musicians are featured on the dvd, including archival world music from Smithsonian Folkways. See link above for music credits, chapter listings, and more info.

The Beauty of Pollination

Natural Beauty

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Today's Animal in Need - Tucker

About Shelter Connecticut

Making life better for homeless and unwanted animals ♥

Description

We Are Shelter Connecticut

We network needy and homeless animals in the state of Connecticut and beyond.

We lend our voice to the ‘invisible’ animals who languish, forgotten, in our shelters.

We adopt these animals in our hearts and advocate for them as our own.

We embrace and promote the personalities of each animal individually.

We facilitate the adoption and rescue of these animals, and celebrate with abandon when said occurs.

We foster the spirit of guardianship of all animals.

We delight in the joy our animals bring us, and indulge the sentimentality that joy yields.

We affirm that even the smallest compassionate act can transform the lives of the most helpless among us.