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RNA Newsletter – May, 2023

RNA Newsletter – May, 2023

Earth Day and other observances, and community A few weeks ago, an article in Time magazine discussed “The Case for Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday”. This prompted some rich online conversation at RNAnet, with several related themes.  One thread looked at the...

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RNA Newsletter – April, 2023

RNA Newsletter – April, 2023

RNA Is Growing Last weekend I was cutting an apple for baked oatmeal (a Pennsylvania thing) when I noticed something odd. As I sliced through the apple’s core, where there would normally be a space around each seed, long spindly white things were woven between...

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RNA Newsletter – March 2023

RNA Newsletter – March 2023

Stumbling on The Sacred Wonders of Wilderness When I was 11 years old my family moved out of the city of Victoria, BC to a nearby rural community. It was a move from a duplex in an urban setting to, what was at the time, a rural community and a house on a sizeable...

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RNA Newsletter – February 2023

RNA Newsletter – February 2023

Today, February 15, UPS delivered a hardcover copy of my new book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Emerged and Evolved. It was the first time I’d held the real thing in my hands. What did I experience as I stood there on the porch? A very deep YES. I all but...

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RNA Newsletter – January 2023

RNA Newsletter – January 2023

Noticing, Appreciating, and Caring At a time when the New England “winter”, so far, has been the warmest of my life, it’s been interesting seeing and experiencing things that had not been seen before – like types of ice that form on grass after rain, and patterns...

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RNA Newsletter – December 2022

RNA Newsletter – December 2022

Friends, Four days a week I go to a little gym, so small I am sometimes the only one there. But most days there is at least one other person, which tends to encourage conversation. I’m amazed at how quickly these conversations turn to matters of basic worldview, which...

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