Wyniki wyszukiwania:

We have the power to affect the future of humankind with every interaction we have with a child. We have the most power as parents, and then as allies to parents, as grandparents, teachers, counselors, and as friends to all children. Elders of the First Nations taught that we should consider our actions as affecting the unborn generations that we will never know. This book is rooted in the soil of the traditional ways of caring for children of First Nations communities in North America which have been little documented in print. It also derives from the family workshops and camps, which use...

"Human beings have forgotten their instructions" That is how many of the Native elders responded to Manitonquat when he traveled the continent over forty years ago seeking answers to the questions "What is wrong with people? Why is there war, violence, oppression, greed, injustice, poverty, indifference and destruction of the environment?" Sitting with and listening to many elders of First Nations from all parts of North America, he began to form a clearer idea of what they often called "the Original Instructions." All of Creation is formed by them - what some refer to as Natural Law, Dharma,...

Like Thoreau's journals come the poems of this book. Birch Cottage comprises a number of poems written over many years in a small hand-made house deep in the woods of southern New Hampshire, in the Souhegan valley and the region of Mt. Monadnock. Among the quiet woods, with the birds, the wild turkeys, the animals that live in and under the house, and on the mountain is a world apart. An ancient way of life is celebrated in poems divided into three parts, ending with an ice storm disaster to the delicate birch grove, and the way woodland life reacts to that. The antithesis of that way, the...