A few things I've found inspiring recently:
- Talks from TED.
- Bill Moyers talks with poet Robert Bly, Mayor Cory Booker, and activist Grace Lee Boggs.
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - book and web site by Barbara Kingsolver talks about eating local food -- it's got me thinking about gardening and farmer's markets
- Edible Estates - book and web site by Fritz Haeg shows how to convert your lawn to a garden.
We love to hike at Mission Trails Regional Park. Want to see a 3-D animation of the area? My husband created these from topo maps using Bryce 3D.
Hermann Hesse wrote It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. You can learn about yourself and others with the Keirsey Temperament Sorter or by looking into enneagram.
Here are some zen-ish sites I like:
- Zen Center of San Diego
- How we get hooked (Pema Chodron)
- Interview of Pema by Bill Moyers
- interview with Ram Dass
- New Dimensions broadcasting
- Zencast blog and podcast
- dharma talks by Ezra Bayda and Elizabeth Hamilton
Some poems I like to read:
- The Sun, Wild Geese, The Summer Day, Morning Poem, When Death Comes , The Buddha's Last Instruction by (Mary Oliver)
- Please Call Me by My True Names by (Thich Nhat Hanh)
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight, Death, Moving Forward, On Hearing of a Death (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- The Silken Tent, Desert Places, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
environment:
- Baggu reusable shopping bags
- Worm World
- Compost Resource Page
- Jennifer Roberts of Extraordinary Landscaping designed and landscaped our back yard. It looks great and our water use has decreased significantly.
