By John Bell Is there any end to grief? This is a question that has puzzled me for years. Why? I have done a ton of crying in my life, but first I had to overcome my early conditioning against crying. I began my emotional healing journey at age 27 through a peer counseling process. … Continue reading The Happier I Get the More I Cry! What’s Going On Here?
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Why Do I Vote?
By John Bell, October 2024 Why do I vote when I think the political system is mostly corrupt or broken, when I know that money controls elections, when I don’t trust most elected officials to be truthful most of the time, when I know many of them sell out their principles to their desire to … Continue reading Why Do I Vote?
Our Daughter’s Heart
I am pleased to share with you news of the publication of my beloved partner’s book. Dorothy Stoneman wrote a dramatic and well-told story of our family’s journey preparing for and living through our daughter’s heart surgery when she was age five--how we engaged her in many decisions, navigated the medical system, handled our own … Continue reading Our Daughter’s Heart
Envisioning the Beloved Community
By John Bell, 2022 The Beloved Community is a notion often associated with Martin Luther King, Jr. He put a strong public spotlight on an idea that has been held deep in the hearts of humans for millennia. People everywhere have had the yearning to live in a peaceful, just, and sustainable world. Indigenous people, … Continue reading Envisioning the Beloved Community
A New Year’s Bouquet of Songs, 2022
Dear friends, These darker days of winter are mirrored in some dark days for our country, the Earth, and it's awesome array of beings. In Buddhism, there is a teaching that says the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows exist side by side, and we are asked to embrace it all. For me, you … Continue reading A New Year’s Bouquet of Songs, 2022
We Have a Relationship Problem with the Earth
By John Bell Recently I was asked to be the opening speaker for a six part course called "Climate Justice" for my local Unitarian Universalist community. The course is focused on climate science and how local, state, federal, and global efforts are addressing the ecological crisis. However, I was asked to put these external, technological, … Continue reading We Have a Relationship Problem with the Earth
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
Dear friends, https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/developing-a-mindful-approach-to-earth-justice-work/ For the past couple of years, I have been involved with a group of mindfulness practitioners concerned with the intersection of climate change and racial and social justice, often called Earth Justice. I just published an article in Kosmos Journal for Global Transformation which describes a six-part holistic framework that our group … Continue reading Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
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