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Window Seat, by Julieanne Kost

As I sat and read Window Seat with its extraordinarily beautiful photographs, I felt like I was sitting next to Julieanne on one of her many flights on a commercial airliner and was experiencing the rapturous beauty of the topography of the earth through her eyes with its sinuous rivers, stark highways, undulating mountains, vibrant geometric fields, and all the other natural beauty visible and recordable from the window seat of an airliner flying at many thousands of feet above the earth. The beauty of those incredible photographs alone are worth the $40 price of the soft cover book. Continue Reading →

To See or Not to See

By: Kelly Williams

Is the glass half full or half empty? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you see opportunities or challenges? One’s answers to these familiar questions have often stimulated thought and discussion. Similarly, our Degrees of Well-Being (DOWB) self assessment tool, created and launched a few years back, invites individuals to answer 93 statements based on how they are currently living their lives. Not how they would like to be living their life. And, there is a big difference between the two. Continue Reading →

The Implications of Grace Under Fire

By: Kelly Williams and Bill Cumming

Two incidents within the past few weeks have illuminated once again the real solutions to violence and damage in our world. And yet, questions remain: did we hear and see the solutions within the incidents? Do we understand the implications for our own lives and are we willing and ready to learn from these in service of a healthy planet? This month, we reflect on these two incidents and explore the implications of grace under fire. Continue Reading →