Earth BoundUnitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Features 365 readings, one for each day of the year. This unique daybook draws from Earth-based spirituality and all of nature and the animal and plant kingdoms, the senses and capacities of the human body, the accomplishments of extraordinary men and women and humanity's poetry and prose. "Brian Nelson's daily musings remind us of both the responsibility and the humanity we share on this earth and within the embrace of the cosmos." --Aimee Liu, author of Flash House and Cloud Mountain |
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aerobatic maneuvers ancient animals Annie Dillard apple APRIL AUGUST autumn Barbara Kingsolver beauty birds blossoming born bring Buehrens calendar called celebrate centuries color consider creation creatures culture darkness David Attenborough DECEMBER Desert Solitaire Divali earth Eostre FEBRUARY feel festival flower communion flowers forest garden goddess grow Halloween harp seal harvest heart heavens honor human Imagine Imbolc inspired JANUARY JULY JUNE keep Kwanzaa land leaves light listen lives look MARCH Mayahuel Mayoruna months moon mystery nature never night NOVEMBER ocean OCTOBER October Country offers ourselves pagan Perhaps plants poem poet Ray Bradbury reconnect reminds ritual river roots season sense SEPTEMBER sing solstice song spring stars story summer survive symbol taste tells there's things tion trees Ursula K walk Waters of March wild wilderness wind winter wonder woods writes
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Página 4 - ... came to rest I found myself on top of the crumpled pile without a bruise or scar. This was a fine experience. Hawthorne says somewhere that steam has spiritualized travel ; though unspiritual smells, smoke, etc., still attend steam travel. This flight in what might be called a milky way of snow-stars was the most spiritual and exhilarating of all the modes of motion I have ever experienced. Elijah's flight in a chariot of fire could hardly have been more gloriously exciting.
Página 11 - He set forth the basic theme that famine is wholly unnecessary in the modern world. Today, therefore, the question on the agenda must read: Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?
Página 10 - Condenses on them, on oiled wood, on metal. Dew whitens in darkness. I lie in my bed and think how, in darkness, the masts go white. The sound of the engine of the first fishing dory dies seaward. Soon In the inland glen wakes the dawn-dove. We must try To love so well the world that we may believe, in the end, in God.