Mend The World Within Your Reach
Join a community discovering how living lightly and deeply through seasonal practices of presence can heal both our scattered attention and our relationship with the living world. Because mending the world begins with mending our capacity to truly see it.
Reclaiming the Sacred Potential of Morning
The Gift of Conscious Awakening If you have been practicing Daily Closure for the past week, you have likely discovered something remarkable: that ending each day consciously naturally leads to a different quality of beginning. When we close one day with gratitude and intention, we create the conditions for awakening to the next day with greater presence and possibility. This week, we turn our attention to the other bookend of conscious daily rhythm: the morning threshold. Just as evening...
Why Daily Closure Matters in an Always-On World
The Sacred Art of Ending Halil Celik I find myself falling into bed used up by the day and I wake up in a state of readiness to continue with all the things I didn't get to yesterday. We live in a culture that has forgotten how to end things. Our days bleed into each other in an unbroken stream of partial attention and accumulated stimulation. Our conversations often trail off into the next task without being completed. Our activities merge seamlessly from one to the next, guided by external...
Paying Attention To Nature
The Severed Attention: Recognizing Our Ecological Predicament Ingmar Introduction to the philosophy of presence as ecological practice There is a great severing at the heart of our ecological crisis, and it is not what most environmental discourse addresses. It is not primarily a severing between humans and nature, though that is real. It is not mainly a severing between economy and ecology, though that is catastrophic. The deepest severing is between our capacity for attention and the world...
Autumn's Edge
The Threshold of Gathering: Lessons from the Autumn Equinox Flopoh Exploring equilibrium as preparation for deepening awareness Looking around during my walks and drives, I see the start of the change. The shadows are lengthening, the squirrels are harvesting, and the leaves are turning. There is something profound about standing at the autumn equinox—that singular moment when day and night achieve perfect balance before the year tips toward darkness. It is nature's invitation to pause, to...
Finding Your Why, Your True North Star
Alexei Navalny's Story Teaches Us About Staying the Course Merrilee Schultz “Everything will be all right. And, even if it won't be, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.”― Alexei Navalny There's something profoundly moving about watching someone live their values, even when—especially when—the world seems determined to break them. I am reading Alexei Navalny's posthumously published memoir, "Patriot," and it is offering me a rare glimpse into the mind of someone who...
When All You Want Is Solitude (But Still Need People)
Finding Community When All You Want Is Solitude A Reader's Guide to Belonging There's a particular exhaustion that comes from being pulled in too many directions. The kind that makes me want to disappear into a book and ignore the world entirely. Yet even in my most hermit-like moments, something deeper calls quietly to me: the fundamental human need for connection and community. Maya Angelou observed, "A human being is not attainable by a human being alone." This tension between craving...
Choosing What We See
The Architecture of Attention According to William James Shubham Dhage from Unsplash I was listening to the book “You’re Not Listening” by Kate Murphy (and I actually was listening) when she casually mentioned William James’s thoughts on attention. It was one sentence in a six-hour listen. What did William James, a pioneering psychologist, think about attention, and how can that relate to paying attention to what needs mending in the world? And down the rabbit hole I went. More than a century...
Do You Need the Whole World to Feel at Home
Within The One Who Loves All the Places We Cannot Be "I want to live by the ocean, but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside, you feel me." Have you seen this quote around the web? It is attributed to no one, and it seems to resonate with everyone. I knew what it meant. There's something achingly honest about this confession that our hearts are too vast for any single landscape to contain. It's the cry of my soul standing at the edge...
Would you help me test something I've been quietly building?
I've been quietly working on something for the past few months, and I'm finally ready to share it with the people who matter most to me. It started with a simple question: What if we learned to live in rhythm with the seasons again? Not in a romantic, "let's all move to the woods" way (though no judgment if that's your path), but in a practical, accessible way that works with real life—jobs, families, cities, and all. I've created something called "Mending the World Within Reach" (MWWR)—a...
The Ministry for the Future Was Supposed to Be Fiction
When the Earth Burns Liana S Heat Waves and the Urgency of Now In the northern hemisphere, we have just left high summer when temperatures soar and pools are inviting. Where I live, there were four heat warnings in July. Seeing the warnings always reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's climate novel The Ministry for the Future. The opening scene depicts a devastating heat wave in India that kills 20 million people in a single week. The wet-bulb temperature—a measure combining heat and humidity...
Join a community discovering how living lightly and deeply through seasonal practices of presence can heal both our scattered attention and our relationship with the living world. Because mending the world begins with mending our capacity to truly see it.