Author: Daniela

  • For Your Enjoyment

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    Good for them!

  • Photo of the Day

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    Photographer Alexey Kljatov captures the delicate intricacies of snowflakes: “When I started to shoot snowflakes five years ago, I couldn’t imagine how different and unusual they looked. With the naked eye we usually see only big crystals, 5 mm and bigger, and most of them just one type, stellar dendrites. But [the] most unusual and interesting crystals…

  • The Befana Regatta On The Grand Canal

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    VENICE, ITALY – JANUARY 06: Rowers dressed in costume race along the Grand Canal for the “Befana” Regatta on January 6, 2014 in Venice, Italy. In Italian folklore, Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 in a similar way to Saint…

  • Sustainable, People-Centered Agriculture Lies in Agroecology

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    In keeping with the general theme of a new “gift” economy, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey’s article in the Ecologist focuses on “a sustainable, people-centered agriculture.” …we are launching our ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is ‘agroecology’ – farming that takes its lead from nature. It conceives…

  • Live Video Event with Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

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    Wednesday, January 15th, 5pm PST (view other time zones) Can individual acts of courage and kindness change a culture’s guiding narrative of a doomed planetary crisis? Join visionary Charles Eisenstein in a conversation about a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we…

  • It’s This Cold Today

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    How cold is it in Wisconsin today?  Cold enough to turn boiling water into snow.

  • Photographing Spirituality

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    James Estrin, co-founder of the The New York Times Lens blog will be exhibiting a collection of his work documenting human spirituality at the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Michael Winerip, who is familiar with Esterin’s work notes: Having worked many, many 12-hour days with him, I can say firsthand that James Estrin’s photos definitely don’t…

  • Sacred Economics

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    A reader recommended I look into the book Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein.  I checked out his website and was completely blown away by this short film. The book is also available on-line.  You can find it here.

  • Mapping Our Emotions

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    Originally posted on The Dish: A new set of experiments asked participants to read short stories or watch movies and then “color in the areas of their body where sensations became stronger (the red and yellow) or weaker (blue and black) when they felt a certain way”: The mapping exercise produced what you might expect:…

  • Quote For The Day

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    Originally posted on The Dish: “Union with God is not something we acquire by technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very search for God. Because God is the ground of our being, the relationship between creature and Creator is such that, by sheer grace, separation is not possible. God does…