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Reflections on Earth Day

Reflections on Earth Day – HIGHLIGHT

By Gregory Webster Please join Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective for an Earth Day Celebration Sunday Gathering on April 27, 2025. Learn More & Register. The arrival of another Earth Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on what has happened on/to our planet since the inaugural event ... continue
Posted April 22, 2025 by Jillian_Johnson
Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective: Book Recommendations

Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective: Book Recommendations – HIGHLIGHT

by Dickie Swaback An excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective September 2024 Newsletter I FIND IT VERY VALUABLE and stimulating to read various authors on the same or somewhat related topics. Currently, my interests lean in the direction of topics of interdependence, systems thinking, climate concerns, humanity, ... continue
Posted September 6, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Farewell to Jim Wagner

Farewell to Jim Wagner – HIGHLIGHT

An Excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective July/August 2024 Newsletter So long, farewell…  For the last two years, The Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective has had Jim Wagner shepherding our newsletters and website. He accepted a position that has been largely hidden from the sangha. Over these past years, Gregory ... continue
Posted July 16, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Eco-Dharma Talk Series: Exploring Where a Mindful Life and Ecology Meet

Eco-Dharma Talk Series: Exploring Where a Mindful Life and Ecology Meet – HIGHLIGHT

A Shambhala Online Interview with Touching the Earth Collective Shambhala Online spoke with Gregory Webster and Irene Woodard from Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective and asked them several questions about the upcoming Eco-Dharma Series being held July 16-20, 2024. The Eco-Dharma Talk Series: Exploring Where a Mindful ... continue
Posted June 11, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Gratitude for Human Resource

Gratitude for Human Resource – HIGHLIGHT

An Excerpt from the March 2024 Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective Newsletter by Irene Woodard There is a group of us in the Collective studying Joanna Macy’s Active Hope. And the start of her spiral is gratitude. And so this is coming from that place, where someone has been so important ... continue
Posted March 21, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Year of the Wood Dragon

Year of the Wood Dragon – HIGHLIGHT

Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective February 2024 Newsletter In preparing for the upcoming Wood Dragon year, the Steering Committee has created a document of agreed upon goals…But as we have learned in the last few years, things change, oh my oh my. We are already off to an unimagined ... continue
Posted February 6, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Warrior Assembly

Warrior Assembly – HIGHLIGHT

Karmê Chöling October 2023 by Eric Zechman The third Warrior Assembly of the year brought more than 50 people to Karmê Chöling, situated deep in the Green mountains of Northern Vermont, on the traditional territory of the Abenaki people. It was late October and the weather was unseasonably warm ... continue
Posted January 5, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Who Speaks for the Trees?

Who Speaks for the Trees? – HIGHLIGHT

A Review of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss A Touching the Earth Collective book review by Gregory Webster The story has become a familiar one; the story of our times perhaps. A tale of industrial over-exploitation, of an ecosystem devastated, of habitat lost and wildlife (at best) dispersed. A ... continue
Posted December 15, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Children's Day

Children’s Day – HIGHLIGHT

An Excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective December 2023 Newsletter In thinking about this year’s December Newsletter only one thing came to mind…Children’s Day! Over the past three years, The Touching the Earth Collective has been the Children’s Day presenter on Shambhala Online Sunday Gatherings. It was a ... continue
Posted December 5, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Warriors in the World

Warriors in the World – HIGHLIGHT

An Excerpt from the November 2023 Touching the Earth Collective Newsletter One of the goals of 2023, Water Rabbit year, is landing ecodharma in the heart of Shambhala. Funded by the Bess Family Foundation grant, we boldly planned, presented and were integrated into the fabric of Warrior Assemblies. ... continue
Posted November 14, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Insects, Interconnectedness and Interdependence—Elemental Expression with Colin Tracy

Insects, Interconnectedness and Interdependence—Elemental Expression with Colin Tracy – HIGHLIGHT

An excerpt from the Touching the Earth Collective September Newsletter Every month, we offer a space for one of the Collective’s members or friends to share their work, art, or passion… Many people see insects as pests – farmers and gardeners especially. As a gardener l recognise the battle ... continue
Posted October 20, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective Celebrates 5 Years!

Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective Celebrates 5 Years! – HIGHLIGHT

An Excerpt from the TTE October 2023 Newsletter 5th Birthday Haiku Yes, cheerful birthday! Touching the Earth Collective! The mission has roots! The message is that we are five, and we have roots.We are at a tender age, and we are established in the soil and society of Shambhala.And so we ... continue
Posted October 6, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Elemental Expression with Colin Tracy

Elemental Expression with Colin Tracy – HIGHLIGHT

An excerpt from the Touching the Earth Collective September Newsletter Every month, we offer a space for one of the Collective’s members or friends to share their work, art, or passion… Working with a camera or paintbrush are ways I see beyond ‘me’… My parents were both keen photographers, gardeners ... continue
Posted October 3, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Right-Sizing Perfection, Recognizing Enough

Right-Sizing Perfection, Recognizing Enough – HIGHLIGHT

by David Takahashi, the Ecodharma Doula A Touching the Earth Collective September 2023 Newsletter Excerpt It is now September, a time we associate with harvesting the richness of Nature. It is also a time to contemplate our dying paradigm of unlimited bounty on our finite planet. Why does this ... continue
Posted September 8, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton

Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton – HIGHLIGHT

A Touching the Earth Collective Book Review by Gregory Webster As the twenty-first century unfolds before us, we find ourselves in the midst of the sixth extinction event on Planet Earth. This time however, it is not caused by a catastrophic asteroid impact, or super volcanoes; it ... continue
Posted August 18, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson


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