by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Jun 13, 2014 | social justice |
(Warning: this blog contains opinions about recent school shootings…perhaps we disagree or we find solidarity. We call this freedom of the press.) Maybe you think of your adolescent awakening with fondness or maybe you are grateful to have left that hellish hormonal... by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized |
For a week or more in the summer of 2001, fires burn through northern New Mexico, decimating forests in the Pecos Wilderness and Los Alamos and creating thick gray smoke that threatens the people in Santa Fe. People have to evacuate their homes due to fire damage or... by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Thomas Berry, a Catholic monk and universal philosopher, says “One of the most frequent archetypes is the performance of death and rebirth ceremonies. Humans are not fully human until they’ve gone through some ceremonial rebirth.” Initiation is one way of coding...