Rattling the Bones

We just returned from Banff and Golden, B.C. We gave a workshop out there and like every weekend or lecture that we give -- it's life changing. Living in the Rockies is so different than living in the city. I've been back for a few weeks already and still I'm dreaming of snow covered mountains and ice cold turquoise rivers. I think that everyone who shared the Golden Weekend with us can vow that there's nothing more beautiful than waking up to the wild... Definitely our worries were different out there. We were thinking of Bears when we went out for walks making sure to double up with partners; and we were more aware of nature because it wasn't unusual to come across Caribou, Deer or Elk on the trails. Where we come across a few Dragon Flies around our parts of the woods, out there -- there were thousands of them. Bats swam with the girls at night. Daniela told us that sometimes they would come so close to her head that she had synchronize with them as to not collid...

          We live in a world where everything is dispensable.   How many times have you heard the statement: “it doesn’t matter it’s just a plate, just a car, just a pair of shoes…” On one hand it’s our way of saying: “there are more meaningful things in life than our belongings.”   And yet, we forget that for everything we break or discard for something else, it means that we are asking the Earth to carry the burden of it.   Lets face it one of these days we’ll run out of space for our garbage.    Our ancestors left behind pottery; old tools for labor and worship but that is far cry from kilometers of dump space with everything from cars, to toys, and appliances.   Will the next generations of humans need that kind of reminder that their ancestors borrowed from their future and literally got buried in debt?   How do we stop a bad habit that has gotten so out of hand that it became contagious all over the planet?   Some people will say, “there’s no use even trying”.   I tend to bel...