http://storycatcher.net/wordpress Stories are the voice of humanity Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:49:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mid-January and I have emerged from the moment between the years when I rest: two weeks—from Winter Solstice to the first Monday in January. The small educational company of PeerSpirit, Inc. lies dormant for 14 days. The books Ann Linnea and I have written this past year are off ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2010/01/18/remembering-to-see-the-world-anew/ Last December I wrote about my mother’s habit of anonymously giving away $20.00 bills to folks who look in need of a little windfall before the holidays.  (See blog entry December 1, 2008) This year she’s “reading for peace.” My mother lives in Canada, and on November 11, called Remembrance Day ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/12/06/what-shes-up-to-now/ We had months of almost no rain until mid-October. Now, the storms of November are upon us--including lots of rain and tree-bending winds. That's our prayer--trees bending, not breaking. We've moved the vehicle out of the path of falling limbs and started the debate over which end of the house ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/11/19/a-dark-and-story-night/ You haven't heard from me in a while because I am soooo tired of writing! I was thinking about this as walked the dog yesterday morning. Though she's age 11, she still likes to scoot around the corner onto the macadam road that enters the neighborhood and head into a ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/10/16/350-a-hugely-important-number-for-our-times/ Sunday afternoon 13 September 2009 It's been a while since I wrote, but before I tell you where I've been (working/writing/traveling sums it up) I want to tell you where I am right now-- sitting at a table in the Omega Café overlooking the late summer landscape of Omega Institute, Rhinebeck ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/09/13/400-women-and-4000-ideas-for-changing-the-world/ Hello dear friends, I started off writing this as a blog entry, then decided to submit it to a wider audience--and it got picked up and published  on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by CommonDreams.org URL to article: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/21-11 Obama, Change and The Missing Conversation by Christina Baldwin © 2009 I was in a local espresso ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/07/22/obama-change-the-missing-conversation/ Sometimes in the synchronicity of the Internet, something comes our way that speaks to what we area already pondering. The bulk of this entry comes from an acquaintance, Elias Amidon, a man I have read and heard about for many years and finally met this past March when he and ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/06/24/seeing-chaos-as-a-story-of-world-brightening/ Dear Storycatchers, I have missed you--missed writing to you and hearing back from you as we make our ways through busy days. The new book, which pulled me off this blogging schedule, co-authored with Ann Linnea, is at Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco--in fact, on this Saturday morning I am ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/06/13/circling-round-to-story/ My friend Deb Lund, a well-known children's author, is traveling on school visits throughout Japan these  weeks, and her companion is her 6th grade son, Kaj.  They are both keeping blogs of the journey--shared experiences through two generational eyes. It is beautiful to read these parallel and unique trains of ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/05/08/friends-in-japan/ It's the night after Easter weekend, and while we started off Friday evening enjoying an amazingly professional concert of sections of the Brahms Requiem performed by the local Methodist church choir and island musicians, my main spiritual practice these past weekend has been largely focused on gardening. We put in ... http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2009/04/13/putting-in-earth-time/