Growth and release The day I took this picture, the garden volunteer had gathered people around and was releasing butterflies one by one. They had hatched from their chrysalises in their glass enclosures, and been transferred to a netted box. With the volunteer’s reach, grab and release, they were let go into their new lives […]
All of a sudden a quiet comes and you let it
Hello! Can you hear that? There is peace here: Life never rests. Have you noticed? Something is always mending, breaking, exploding out of itself ready, urgently, for attention. And urgently we tend it, other plates spinning, wondering when life got so… Wait a minute. When was it ever placid? For survivors and drivers and mothers, […]
Taming the Fury: Mindful Nation Teaches Veterans, Nurses, and Teachers Meditation
Add meditation, visualization and movement to veterans, children, teachers, healthcare professionals and leaders, and what do you make? Stronger communities. Living more fulfilled lives. In healthier bodies and minds. This is the mission of the Mindful Nation Foundation, a “pay it forward” non-profit that partners with local leaders, mind-body service providers and visionary donors to […]
Equal Measure: A Post by the SGR Community
A nation sleeping through its racism is wakened by the brutal killing of nine black parishioners in a historic Charleston church. A week later elation, as marriage equality crosses the finish line, is shadowed by the glaring reality that equality is hardly in hand. On June 26, 2015, the day of the SCOTUS marriage ruling […]
Sound and Fury
What do a violinist, a wisdom conference and a single, clear moment have in common with a history-making supreme court ruling for marriage equality, a race-related massacre, and the deeply affecting upheaval of both? Soul Growth Radio’s issue 3 theme, “Sound and Fury.” Thanks for being here with us. Please come in and see what […]
AUDIO YOU
We are starting a collection of audio featurettes. For Issue 3, “Sound and Fury,” we want to HEAR you. Record a short message using the audio memo app on your smartphone. Send it to Voices@SoulGrowthRadio.com. Please record your message in 90 seconds or less (shoot for 60). Choose a prompt. Tell us your name. Tell […]
Welcome to our New Advice Columnist, Isabel Abbott
We’re almost beside ourselves to welcome Isabel Abbott, of Lists and Letters, as Soul Growth Radio’s new advice columnist. The sumptuous Isabel will be lacing spiritual conversation in our pages with the sensual, physical, corporeal. Spiritual embodiment. Please send Isabel your letters and questions, to answer in her first column, coming in July. Our Issue […]
Angelic Intervention
A Soul Growth Radio reader and I had what she called an “angelic intervention” last week. She was touched by a conversation in the SGR Facebook group and called me to say it lifted her in just the right moment. She was having a challenging day as a mother: Feeling exhausted and facing too much […]
Nature, Social Justice, Earth Justice
Two different birds have hovered outside the window today, looking in at me for a while before flying off–a hummingbird and a bluejay. In considering this, I hear in my head “I Know Why” as in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and I think of this because, with the wildlife out there looking […]
Life Byte, Pema
So, I’m in my office. It’s on a 2nd floor, with windows near a couple of trees. Twice today, two different birds have hovered outside the window, looking in at me for a while before flying off–a humming bird and a bluejay. In considering hashtag for this, I hear in my head #IKnowWhy as in […]