Each month at our Monday Meditations, our community gathers for connection, conversation, and mindful practice that invites us each to deep engagement with sacred spaces in the living world wherever we are. This time is grounded in reflection on the week’s Note from Nature and by short exercises of contemplation and attention. These opportunities to be together as a community, to pause at the start of each month for guided practice has become a beautiful feature of our ongoing exploration of...

This weekend, while snow and ice was blanketing much of the east coast of the US, I was shin-deep in a canyon stream. It was cool, not cold, and rushing in a way I hadn’t seen in ages. The sun filtered through branches still bared in winter’s rest and full canopies coaxed into new life by weeks of rain. The layered contrasts in this scene were not lost on me, and they extended far beyond varied ecological responses and distinct seasonal expressions.

At the start of a new year, we feel free to imagine new possibilities. It is a time for dreaming, even as we acknowledge uncertainty inherent in new beginnings.