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Quick update August 5
Dear Friends, I have just left the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk, and am on my way to the Unis’tot’en Action Camp in British Columbia. There is a beautiful world of environmental activism up...
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Notes from Unis’tot’en Action Camp
After two weeks of traveling, I want to offer some brief impressions of the Unis’tot’en Action Camp. I wrote these notes Saturday night, several hours after leaving the camp. The first thing to note is...
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Update from mid-trip
Dear Friends, I’m in the middle of traveling the walk route, checking things out and listening a lot. I started 6 days ago from Hardisty, a community that has lived with pipelines for over 50 years,...
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Personal comments after trip
September 7, 2012 It’s over a week since I came home. So much has come in – information, places, people, ideas, kindnesses, concerns – that it’s hard to decide what to write. And I’ve needed to settle...
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October update: walkers and supporters
I’ve been silent for a while, working on the website – which hopefully will go up in a month. Here I’m posting the working drafts of two pages: one for prospective walkers, including probable daily...
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reflections
Dear Friends, I’ve been silent, away nearly a month, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the East. Although the disasters continue in the world, at this time my thoughts are quiet. I went to Japan for a...
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Year-end thoughts
Dear Friends, At the close of the year, I have just a short update on the Compassionate Earth Walk, and some reflections on the big picture. We now have a small group of committed walkers – at...
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Compassionate Earth Walk – New website, matching grant, and other news
Dear Friends of the Compassionate Earth Walk, It’s only six months until the walk begins. Here’s a summary of the topics in this post: New website information Donation, matching grant, and list of...
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Phone call February 28; matching grant ends soon
Dear Friends of Compassionate Earth Walk, We will have our first group phone call on Thursday afternoon, February 28, at 7 pm Eastern Time, 6 Central Time, 5 Mountain Time, 4 Pacific Time. Please sign...
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Please check out the website.
All blog posts are now at the website, http://www.CompassionateEarthWalk.org. To catch up with what’s happening, please go there and click on blog. Lots and lots is happening. We have five walkers...
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Compassionate Earth Walkers enter United States after 23-day walk through Canada
July 31, 2013; For Immediate Release: Compassionate Earth Walkers enter United States after 23-day walk through Canada Contact: Shodo Spring, 507-384-8541, shodo.spring@gmail.com...
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Concluding the Walk
As I start moving into the next phase of my life, it seemed important to gather my own writings from the Walk. I chose not to remove the mundane – donation appeals and event announcements – but to do...
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Hello again
Hello! It seems that I announced that I blog here, but didn’t post anything, while several people checked out the site and a few signed up. Apologies. So I will start with a little news from my life in...
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the flaming leaves and sacred spaces
There was a poem I memorized in high school. From memory: Cannon River, fall Thy winds, thy wide gray skies, thy mists that roll and rise, thy woods, this autumn day,...
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After Veterans’ Day
Yesterday, November 11, was Veterans’ Day in the United States, and Armistice Day in Europe. In Britain they honored the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I with poppies – 900,000 poppies...
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Gratitude and more
On the verge of entering Rohatsu sesshin – the annual, traditional seven-day retreat remembering Buddha’s enlightenment – there is little to say. I wrote briefly at VairochanaFarm.wordpress.com. Here I...
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What thoughts are for – some thoughts
Visiting my teacher’s temple, I sit with others for two hours each morning. This is a wonderful opportunity and I am grateful. And this morning, as the second period drew to a close, I noticed that I...
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The Most Useful Thing
I woke up this morning with the thought: “Is this the most useful thing I can be doing?” I spend a lot of time on the farm – taking care of it, thinking about it, managing people who work with me on...
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