La Vista Ecological Learning Center

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES

Welcome to "The Archives." We think you'll find sustainable nourishment in these issues that will feed you for some time to come. Here is a rich and varied collection of articles, published over the years, but whose messages remain as vital today as when they were written. Thanks for visiting...and enjoy!

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2011

Summer − "Exploring a Prairie, Expanding a Sense of Self" (3.2MB)

Winter − "Allurement: What Draws You Most Deeply?" (1.5MB)

2010

Summer − "Living In Between Stories" (2.4MB)

Winter − "An Emerging Vision for 2010 and Beyond" (1.9MB)

2009

Autumn − "Deepening the Adventure of Life" (5.3MB)

Summer − "Economic Sustainability?" (6.2MB)

Spring − "The Cosmic Dance: Pain and Destruction" (4.8MB)

2008

Winter − "Where We Belong" (7.6MB)

Autumn − "Our Children: Their Future" (8.8MB)

Summer − "Living Water" (1.9MB)

Spring − "Emerging Consciousness" (4.7MB)

2007

Winter − "Holy Ground" (1.6MB)

Autumn − "Good-bye to the Gumball" (8.8MB)

Summer − "If We Have Eyes That See" (2.0MB)

Spring − "Conversion to a Mutually Enhancing World View" (3.4MB)

2006

Winter − "A Look at Jesus Embedded in the Whole of Creation" (2.0MB)

Autumn − "A Personal Journey" (3.8MB)

Summer − "I Will Make the Whole Earth My Altar" (2.5MB)

Spring − "Time to Choose" (2.8MB)

2005

Winter − "Blessed Darkness, Sacred Fire" (3.7MB)

Autumn − "Signs of Our Times" (3.1MB)

Summer − "Nature Deficit Disorder" (1.7MB)

Spring − "The Integrity of All Creation" (4.1MB)

2004

Winter − Unavailable

Autumn − "Strange Harvest" (2.6MB)

Summer − "Play and Possibility" (3.4MB)

Spring − Unavailable

2003

Winter − Unavailable

Autumn − "Where Are We?" (1.7MB)

Summer − "It Indeed Takes A Universe" (5.3MB)

Spring − "Ponderings from the Precipice" (3.8MB)

2002

Winter − "Barefoot Christmas" (2.9MB)

Autumn − "A Just and Sustainable Harvest" (2.1MB)

Summer − "An Introduction to Cosmology: What is Your Story?" (305KB)

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from The Cosmic Dance: Pain and Destruction

"We cannot go on as before, none of us. Each action we take has an influence on the rest of life on the planet. Nothing we do remains isolated. Each influences the other. It is a tremendous gift and also, an enormous challenge. As long as Earth remains an "it," a "thing," rather than a living, vibrant reservoir of life, humans will continue to use and abuse her. We need a loving relationship with this generous, vulnerable planet on which we live."

Joyce Rupp

from Emerging Consciousness

"To care for the human community is to touch the Earth. To choose to live more consciously of the Earth and her future is to make a choice for humanity. There is no separation. The thought that we are separate is illusion. We eat Earth, breathe earth, wear Earth, drink Earth . . . even our tears are Earth, the salty waters of ocean. We are Earth dancing, singing, loving, praying. You and I can never be separated from what we are."

Jan Novotka

from The Integrity of All Creation

"We are truly children of the universe, made of the same stuff as the mountains and the rain, the sand and the stars. We are governed by the laws of life and growth and death as are the birds and the fish and the grass of the field. We thrive in the warmth of and through the agency of the sun as does every other living thing. We come from the earth as from a mother, and we are nourished from this same source of life. It should be easy to see that the intrinsic integrity of all creation is basic to everything about us."

Dianne Bergant