A ROOTS AND WINGS BLOG
by GLENN SCHIFFMAN
The only thing we can truly bequeath to the next generation are Roots and Wings. I hope this blog inspires you to share yours.
2/05/2023
2/02/2023
1/31/2023
1/30/2023
Rumi poem
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
S/He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi
1/26/2023
1/19/2023
1/16/2023
1/13/2023
Stardust
The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the oxygen. Much of the iron in your body was made during supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away. The gold in your jewelry was likely made from neutron stars during collisions that may have been visible as short-duration gamma-ray bursts or gravitational wave events. Elements like phosphorus and copper are present in our bodies in only small amounts but are essential to the functioning of all known life. The featured periodic table is color coded to indicate humanity's best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements. The sites of nuclear creation of some elements, such as copper, are not really well known and are continuing topics of observational and computational research.
1/11/2023
See the Journey Whole
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1/07/2023
12/31/2022
12/28/2022
12/23/2022
Shamanic shift
Describing her childhood training in the Indigenous Sciences
of the Oneida tradition, our teacher and colleague,
Paula Underwood Spencer, wrote:
"Since Universe is Energy, part of the process of understanding, at least as I experience it, is to learn to 'see' flows of energy and specificities of energy.
Both are necessary. Because, you see, Universe is both Whole and Specific. Western science is beginning to understand this through explorations about particle and wave.
Both particle/particularity/
with developing the ability to enter and use this shift."
12/16/2022
12/10/2022
12/05/2022
The Veil lifts
"God is not always silent and humans are not always blind. In every person’s life there are moments when there is a lifting of the veil at the horizon of the known, opening a sight of the eternal. Each of us has at least once in our life experienced the momentous reality of God... The remembrance of that experience and the loyalty to the response of that moment are the forces that sustain our faith.In this sense, faith is faithfulness, loyalty to an event, loyalty to our response." ~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel