By Steven Petrow — 2019
"It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Oliver gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life."
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Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.
Each year, on the winter solstice, we share this reflection on the season by Parker Palmer. In 1995 Parker wrote a welcome for the Fetzer Institute’s newly built retreat center, Seasons, which included a reflection on each of the four seasons.
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The greatest gift we can give our world is our presence, awake and attentive. What can help us do that? Here, drawn from ancient religions and wisdom traditions, are a handful of practices Joanna Macy has learned to count on.