Beautiful conversation between Anderson Cooper and Francis Weller on the apprenticeship with grief. This is a 2 hour video so take it in chunks.

Use your imagination. Get off screens and get to see and feel your original peace of mind Get outside! We are animals born to connect with our plant and animal cousins. Talk with trees, sing to birds and buzz with bees.

Pep Guardiola has condemned conflicts around the world including the genocide in Palestine, war in Ukraine and civil war in Sudan in a heartfelt statement. He asked how anyone could defend the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by ICE in Minnesota and said humanity is “better than ever in terms of possibilities … but it’s still right not we kill each other - for what?” The Manchester City manager made the comments at a press conference ahead of the second leg of the Carab

Wonderful book you can find at your favorite bookstore or the library Wonderful new book from the Seattle Public Library. Here is the author's website

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Hi from Seattle Cascadia.welcome to Good Nature Publishing. I've found these books to be bread crumbs on the path to an ecology of mind, an evolving gladness centered in the faith of us mortals to see we are interconnected, we belong to each other. And that humans are essentially constructive and trustworthy. Meditation has done a lot to help me redirect suffering thoughts of helplessness and overwhelm in this moment. Limiting the attention I give to the machine and its e

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M. Gessen via New York Times After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived. Please look at this list with me. Since early Januar

I didn't write the following-- looks like AI, but I think it does a good job of getting us thinking about two things in the end: Here are 10 questions that work like social superglue. Each comes with a quick breakdown of why it works, and how to use it. “What’s something most people misunderstand about you?” Why it works: People LOVE feeling seen and understood. This question gives power. It invites someone to gently correct the story others assume about them. Science behi

Fellow traveler, I grew up in the civil rights and anti war movement. These movements have helped me see that the struggle for poor people, the struggle for Black, Brown, citizen and immigrant is our struggle. And to hold these truths to be self evident here in America the beautiful, that all men and women are created equal is a key teaching of nonviolence by Martin Luther King Jr. What Coretta Scott King says here about violence is written in the kindest way for us all to

Plant seeds of peace with meditation. Think for yourself and figure out what works for you to train your mind to be a beacon for peace, a radio signal for coherence. We humans are essentially constructive and trustworthy. The suffering that is created in this world is created by ignorance. So when you order the NW Conifers or wildflowers posters, make sure you link it to learning more about our fellow plants and animals. Instead of asking what's in it for me, ask "Is a ri

I'm sharing this passage from William Henry Channing . since his words best reflect my own way of seeing: To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden a

The convicted felon needs to be arrested for Renee Good's execution by one of his illegal street gang members. And just why is it the sheriff can go after Timothy Busfield for child abuse while we have Donald Trump accused of child rape running America the beautiful like a gangster does? Believe the women. who courageously stood up against the elites and Epstein who Trump is trying to distract us from. Time for a team of Blue state Attorney Generals to make arrest warrants f

Tara Shepersky has a great little business and way of seeing I hope you get a chance to visit Tara's site. She's an antidote to despair, and has a lot of creative flowering going on in process with other people and plants and animals. This is from Tara's Three Healing Friends story: About a month ago, I had one of those days where everything feels hard. Without belaboring the intensity — perhaps you already know what I mean — I will say that the feeling is like a long and

Abolish ICE and stop terrorizing working class Americans. This is BULLSHIT Bad Behavior Help her family with a contribution here @ Go Fund Me BBC video of ICE murdering Good The Go Fund ME for Renee is closed. They raised $1.5 million! Renee Good RIP not my pic Write your Senators and House Reps. We need a national strike to stop these psychopaths in the White House who are at war on us Americans and at war with the world: Venezuela, Denmark, Canada, Mexico. Absolutel

So Jeff Bezos flees his moral responsibility to pay taxes on income here in Washington State. Some people use this fear of all the rich fleeing as reason to stop small steps toward progressive taxation here in Washington State. The Hoarders Beyond Borders psychopaths are not free agents. They are the result of conditions our society has created that let the rich buy Congress, privatize government and reduce your democratic decision making to complaining on anti social media a

Tahoma/ Rainier. The rainmaker. Found this pic on reddit, not my own. I am taking a break 21st Solstice to New year. I will be checking Good Nature Publishing now and then. Hope the holiday season is good for you and your family. Here is to peace on Earth and good will to all women and men, plants and animals on this beautiful Earth.

Thank you from Seattle and Good Nature Publishing Hi from the tree elves at Good Nature. I'm writing this note to say thanks for stopping by this year. I'm grateful for your attention. And I know how precious our attention is these days. Let's stop the war on Venezuela, convict and imprison the most treasonous President since Jefferson Davis. Stop kidnapping people and sending them overseas without due process. Practice the Golden rule and loving one another over the