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.” 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…]
Enthusiasm was contagious. Typically, each Biodesign class session began with a lesson plan. However, students were encouraged to bring in photos, articles, quotes, or questions, all of which could send us off on a merry chase looking for truth, beauty and goodness. Here is an example. I wrote the piece on enthusiasm several weeks … [Read more…]
The Sky People “The story of The Garden of Eden is a greater allegory than man has ever guessed…Time and darkness, knowledge of good and evil have walked with him ever since. Loren Eiseley. Eisely is not necessarily (if even) referring to a religious construct. He is suggesting that if we are … [Read more…]
Windows—Walls—Bridges Whether BOFAW-Fb viewers have noticed or not, we have been engaged in a delightful game of “spiritual ping-pong” with NatureIsUs. We serve up our best photo, poem or quotation to pique or excite their love of Nature and they respond with a dazzling photo worth 10,000 words. It is a heavenly game because … [Read more…]