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Find Your Light and Shine It
“The universe is a cosmic dance of energy…Everything we humans do is about energy.” (pg 240) Energy comes from sunlight, liquids, food...
Norman Viss
Mar 213 min read
Beauty Abounds
It is a great temptation nowadays to respond to the “outrage of the day”. (Just in the last week free speech and due process rights have...
Norman Viss
Mar 173 min read
Learn to See
We return to our summary of Brian McLaren's Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart . To read previous chapter...
Norman Viss
Feb 173 min read
The Work That Reconnects
Joanna Macy, Ph.D, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. She is a respected voice and activist in peace, justice...
Norman Viss
Jan 212 min read
Intimacy with God and Borderless Love
Theologian Sallie McFague (1933–2019) centers compassionate change in a passionate love for God: At the center of Jesus’ message as...
Norman Viss
Jan 92 min read


We Are on This Earth to Love
On this New Year's Day, 2025, a reminder from The Many that we are here to love. Everything and everyone. Drawing on indie pop and gospel...
Norman Viss
Jan 12 min read
What Bothers Me About Reverse Racism
"Reverse racism" is a term used by the white, majority culture to describe what is felt as discrimination against them, usually in the...
Norman Viss
Dec 28, 20244 min read
Enoughness
Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass , did an interview recently with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee of Emergence...
Norman Viss
Dec 4, 20243 min read
Once the World Was Perfect
Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world. Then we took it for granted. Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly...
Norman Viss
Nov 30, 20241 min read
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
It's American Thanksgiving today. Here is a Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee First Nation People. Haudenosaunee is the common...
Norman Viss
Nov 28, 20246 min read
Breaking Down Boundaries
We humans tend to set boundaries between ourselves and others. Often that happens internally, as we judge and evaluate someone and place...
Norman Viss
Nov 26, 20243 min read
What is "Anthropocene"?
“We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet,...
Norman Viss
Nov 24, 20243 min read
Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart is Not Breaking
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron starwould weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on...
Norman Viss
Nov 23, 20241 min read
Being
Stand here on this little hillside long enough, grasses waving, breeze breezing, until you can outgrow the illusion that you are some...
Norman Viss
Nov 23, 20241 min read
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