Category: Community

Joy mattered among our hunter-gatherer ancestors who expressed it in their rituals. As Barbara Ehrenreich observes in her iconic study on ritual, Dancing in the Streets, ecstatic ritual

We have been meditating for several months on the foundational question of our era: What does it mean to be a human being?  We have

Is an election a referendum on What it means to be Human?  Is it a referendum on our shared values, on the common good, on

The Celtic New Year occurred this weekend and New Years often elicits a kind of examination of conscience and a critical look into one’s soul

We are meditating on what animals have to teach us about spirituality and community.  And it is plenty.  In yesterday’s DM we considered seven lessons. 

Some animals go out of their way to make community with humans and to join our families and our clan.  Dogs, cats, horses and many

What renders AA groups and parallel groups they have spawned successful “communities”?  They focus on both healing and truth-telling.  Their essence is listening to one

I find myself deeply affected by yesterday’s DM that focused on the dark side, what Safina called the “bizarre” reality, that only chimpanzees and humans,

Human and chimpanzee efforts at community share much in common when males rule.  Says Safina, “Chimpanzees and humans are the only two ape species stuck