Gratitude
A Tender Story: “We’re Doing It!”
A note from Erin: Dear beautiful human, I’m sending warm greetings your way from our linden blossom-scented porch. The intoxicating, fleeting scent! I wish I could send it along with these greetings. I hope you are finding many ways to keep returning to your vast and tender heart and grow intimacy with the…
Read MoreLet’s abandon arrogance and stand in awe
“We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in…
Read MoreIs Your Real Work Loving the World?
A note from Erin, April 15 2023 Why do praise and gratitude matter? Both of these practices are a kind of soul activism and one I believe we and the world need. Gratitude is a way of seeing. I think of putting on Mary-Oliver-perspectacles as one doorway to this way of seeing – seeing with…
Read MoreA Certain Kind of Badass
A note from Erin: A few days ago I went for a meandering stroll in the canyon and after overnight rain, the golden hills were wafting the sweet incense of autumnal decay. I breathed it in deep. I saw tiny insects and luminous spider threads. I squatted down to watch a big slug cross the…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Revel In Praise
A note from Erin: Hello, beautiful human, I hope you’re finding ways to delight in the season wherever you are adn whatever else is happening. Delight is necessary. Today I have an invitation for you. I have a new class starting on Wed. July 13th – and whether you join me or not, why not read the…
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