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A challenge we face with sustainability is deciding how to invest our time and energy when the returns and the future are uncertain.  In this 4.5-minute video, Holistic Management International Board Director Sallie Calhoun and I discuss how HM empowers us to balance the Holy Trinity of people, planet and profits, while taking into account that we may choose a new life or career direction. The HM methodology is widel Read more

What You Do While Meditating (On Emerging from a Month-Long Advance) It’s been a few weeks since I came out of my month-long solitary meditation retreat, which I prefer to call “advances.” What a valuable experience that was, and challenging to describe. Sometimes people imagine that retreat is just sitting still for a month, which may not seem particularly compelling. It’s far more fascinatin Read more

Did you know that a native perennial grass plant can live hundreds of years? And that they can sequester significant amounts of carbon? Unlike the annual grasses that cover most of our lawns and pastures, native grasses’ roots can be 15 feet deep. Skillful management of grazing – as taught through systems like Holistic Management – support healthy carbon and soil cycles. Sustainable grazing causes the grasses t Read more

In a few days I’ll begin my first solitary retreat in over twenty years of spiritual practice, for a month. I’ve done month-long retreats before, and usually I was either helping organize or teach. So it’s been a while, or maybe it’s never been. As mentioned in a previous blog, we purchased our retreat center, Clear Sky, ten years ago this month, intending to do more meditating. Ha! We’v Read more