It doesn't hurt to literally have your life on the line in order to learn some life lessons.
Quotes
The climate crisis and community
The hidden gift of un-sustainability is how it's forcing community. These days, it's becoming sexy and cool to be green. Our challenge is to make sure it's not just a passing trend. There's nothing like a good crisis to get people to wake up and start caring. But does...
On finding hope, even when it seems there isn’t any
When I was in Luna, there was this point where I wanted to give up hope. They had cut down so many trees around me; they had cut down a tree that fell on an activist named David Gypsy Chain and killed him. And that's the point when I didn't want to have hope anymore โ...
We are ancestors of the future
Every single one of us are ancestors of the future. Every one of us is making choices that will leave a legacy that others will inherit. We cannot control the world, unfortunately. But what we can control is how we choose to show up to the woundedness, how we choose...
Our lives are book-ended by love in action
We have an opportunity โ each and every one of us -- to have our lives be a story of love in action. Our lives are book-ended โ once by birth, once by death. We come in on an inhale, and we leave on an exhale. However long we have in between that inhale and that...
Put love into action
Why love? - why not! There's no good reason why not to love. Is it painful sometimes? โ yes. We may be going through a pain in life that's pretty deep, as I am sometimes. But this depth of the pain that we have is because we are equally able to love in a very, very...