More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs -- all this resinous, unretractable earth.
Journey of the Universe: 10 Years Later Podcast Episode
How can a deep time perspective unleash the creativity within us?
In our latest episode of the Journey of the Universe: 10 Years Later podcast, Sam King speaks with Jennifer Morgan. She is an award-winning author, storyteller, educator, and president of the Deeptime Network, an online educational network that offers webinars and professional development for teachers. Her Universe Story Trilogy -- Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph -- is used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools inspired by a cosmic vision across all levels. She consulted with many scientists at Princeton in writing these books.
For over twenty years Jennifer has been giving programs throughout the US and other countries for students of all ages from elementary to college-age, professional development for teachers, and leading retreats. She believes that cosmological stories profoundly shape our relationships, work, play, culture, and institutions.
International Art Exhibit in Denmark: “Light and Space”
Copenhagen Contemporary Museum
December 3, 2021 - September 4, 2022
James Turrell installation, “Aftershock” Photo Credit: Wallpaper
This special exhibit features 27 Los Angeles artists who are inspired by light.
“Epic group show…explores the past and present of the iconic light and installation art movement. It’s physical, emotional, bodily and disorientating…
…the most comprehensive presentation of artists from the influential light and installation art movement (Light and Space) that emerged in and around Los Angeles in the 1960s.”
James Turrell, one the leading artists in this group has a special installation in the exhibit. He has also created cosmological art work in the Roden Crater in the Arizona desert. For more on his life and work, see here.
“Here: The Dot We Call Home is a little book about some very big ideas: the environment, climate crisis, our concept of home, and the relationship of different groups of people to the earth and to one another. These ideas are so big they can easily overwhelm children (and adults). Here offers children a way to think about and respond to these big ideas with a sense of agency and hope, starting right where they are.”
“The global sense of panic is over, but the virus...is still around, and while governments and people want to get everything back to normal, we still have not discerned what could have been learned from this event. We are left with substantial spiritual, ethical and ecological challenges that still are not being faced. Introducing his book, Beyond the Pandemic (due in October), Diarmuid O'Murchu will review and analyse the ensuing challenges.”
“An invitation to join with other cosmic creatives – artists, poets, writers, ecospiritual activists, stargazers, earth lovers -0 in an immersive online experience together where the practice of Lectio Poetica, listening deeply to a selection of poems by three women poets, initiates creative emergence. The poets are Pattiann Rogers, Linda Hogan and Mary Oliver.”
“Emergent Dialogue Online Practice Group”
With Marianne Rowe, MS, LMFt
Deeptime Network
September - November
2nd & 4th Saturdays
Starts September 10th
11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Limited to 30 participants
"Emergent Dialogue can be seen as a synergy or confluence of Mindfulness and Deeptime Perspective."
— Stephan Martin
Environmentalist, academic, and author Bill McKibben engaged with Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-founder of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology on the topic of the "Climate Emergency." This conversation took place at Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA during the 50th reunion of the Harvard/Radcliffe class of 1971.
“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished.”
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