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Wide Spot, January 2022: Wishing and Willing

March 5, 2022 By Therese DesCamp

One of my favorite online resources is the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Researchers in the science of happiness and gratitude, they’ve got a bang-up website and tons of free resources. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beatrice Bruteau, change, contemplative, environment, Vikto Frankl, wide spot, Wide Spot Column, willing, willingness, wishing

Wide Spot, December 2021: Broken Bones

March 5, 2022 By Therese DesCamp

Environmental activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy once said, “You don’t need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: community, environment, Joanna Macy, Thomas Merton, wide spot, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, November 2021: Imagine That

March 5, 2022 By Therese DesCamp

Years ago, as part of a retreat for environmental activists, we did an exercise imagining different points of view. Here was a scenario: a waterfront property owner had dumped sand to add beach to his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: community, connection, environment, imagination, Pandemic, wide spot, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, September 2021: Words Matter

September 21, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” When I was a kid, that children’s chant was a talisman to protect us from the startlingly painful names that kids fling—Fatty, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, community, Compassion, connection, interconnection, Pandemic, values, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, July 2021: The Answer, My Friend…

July 24, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

If you’re as old as I am, you’re already singing the next line in this iconic Dylan song.  You also know that the answer “blowing in the wind” is both blindingly obvious and as ephemeral as a breeze … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, community, consciousness, interconnection, Joy, Let It Flutter, Pandemic, Practices, Wide Spot Column

Wide Spot, June 2021: Fresh New Hell

July 11, 2021 By Therese DesCamp

The line “What fresh new hell is this?” was famously coined by the American critic Dorothy Parker when her writing was interrupted by the telephone. There’s something deeply true captured by Parker’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Discussion, Uncategorized Tagged With: 500 words, activism, community, Compassion, connection, contemplative, group, interconnection, Interfaith, Pandemic, Practices, spiritual, spirituality, suffering, values, Wide Spot Column

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Wide Spot is a project of the Turner Zion Pastoral Charge of The United Church of Canada. This program has been funded in part by the BC Conference ProVision Fund. Wide Spot has been developed in collaboration between Turner Zion and Heart’s Rest Retreats.

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