Out Of The Mud Comes The Lotus It is striking to see beautiful Lotus flowers in mucky, smelly swamps. The overarching theme is that from dead, decaying vegetation something of great beauty springs forth. Although the colored varieties can be striking, the metaphorical contrast between muck and pristine white can be stunning. Many world … [Read more…]
This photo is being offered as an invitation to “Vashon Jane,†and other mountain lovers, to make a spirit visit to one of the most sacred Biodesign trail junctions. This one was not a typical right/left junction; either of those options would have resulted in death. This option was of a vertical nature and involved … [Read more…]
Perfect Sincerity and Vulnerability Part II When the slide-show team completed their program they announced that they wanted to show it to the class before the parent’s night. They felt that there were potentially intimate moments that they wanted their classmates to see before they shared with a larger audience. They asked the superintendent’s … [Read more…]
Perfect Sincerity and Vulnerability Every Biodesign trip ventured into the uncharted and unpredictable wilderness of the teenage mind. In the class of ’81, one of the girls wanted to invite her dad (VB) along as a chaperone on the Yosemite Trip. We always needed chaperones, but her dad posed some scary potential issues. … [Read more…]
The Power Of The Circle “You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round … Everything the Power of the World does is in a circle.â€Â  Black Elk Christie thought that … [Read more…]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Visits Biodesign “How much more there is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We … [Read more…]
Wayne: Danger- Drama and Dilemma The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are … [Read more…]
Bristlecone Pines, Jesus and BOFAW Small children often lack the ability to conceptualize time. Adults are not that much better off. Who can comprehend a Bristlecone Pine seed germinating and growing for over 5,000 years? Some began living 3,000 years before Christ was born and if they look more dead than alive it is … [Read more…]
The Biology Of Love  Part III Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have  discovered fire.        Pierre Teilhard de Chardin One of the highlights of the Mendocino trip … [Read more…]
The Biology Of Love part II After nearly 50 years of marriage and nearly 40 years of collaborative learning with young people, I am convinced that females have a deeply embedded sense of spirituality that males lack. I know very little about The Bible, but I suspect that there is profound real and or … [Read more…]