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Culture and Tradition: The Struggle
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone. Rumi I am taken, repeatedly, by how silently and powerfully the elements of my … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Marriage
Recently we considered “tradition” as being both the handing on of wisdom and guidance as well as a potential for handing over the younger generations to limiting ideas. This is exactly what we are seeing unfold in the area of … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Shelter
It is in the shelter of each other that people live. Irish Proverb Proverbs offer us ideals toward which to live, and often imply the things that we struggle with toward that ideal. So this proverb. Ideally, in the best … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Handing Over Gifts
“Tradition” is a Latin-based English word that means “to hand over”. We can think of tradition both as “captial T” and “little t” as in those big holidays and practices that we share with a larger community and as those … Continue reading
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Culture and Tradition: The Landscape
In the last interview before his death, Irish philosopher and poet, John O’Donohue and Krista Tippet explored the power of landscape, something that we have written here about often. O’Donohue acknowledges that a beautiful landscape has the power to open … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition; Southern Style
I am a Southern boy, through and through. Born and raised in Macon, GA, I have spent my entire life in the South. Southerners are a complex and, many times, conflicted people. I know that generalizations don’t work, but for … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: The Cauldron
Culture includes all of these forces that shape and contain our lives: social structures, unwritten customs and rules, language, religion, art and literature, forms of government and economic systems. Culture is the great cauldron from which our giftedness pours forth, … Continue reading