doing darkness | october 2009
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welcome Transition is the grey area between old and new, the time when the insect is neither caterpillar nor butterfly. Halloween and Day of the Dead mark the importance of transition. On Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), celebrated in October and November, the dead are honored: Gravesites are decorated with marigolds and candles; folks have picnics beside the grave, dining on the favorite foods of those who've passed. It's a tradition thousands of years old, begun by the Aztecs and celebrated in Mexico. Halloween originates from the Celtic festival of Samhain [pronounced "sah-wen"], celebrating the end of harvest. Any schoolkid can tell you that on All Hallow's Eve the boundary between the living and the dead dissolves and the dead wander the earth. Talk about transition! We don't need to experience Halloween to connect with transition, every moment is a chance for death, then rebirth.
CXC: Home of the fearless Asana At CXC it's not just yoga--it's fearless Yoga. It's yoga done in the same way we hope to live our lives, with attention to what arrives and a willingness to release the results. And it's done specifically with social justice folks in mind. Read more... Wanted: Caretaker of Transformation
in SIGHT What is Transformative Change?
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doing darkness:
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change vs. transformation
most powerful is the vision angel Kyodo williams shares
INcite with angel Kyodo williams
2009 event. While the pictures are fantastic, what's of what Transformative Social Change calls for. Becoming a Butterfly
These days, people are tossing the word
In the full version, she goes even deeper: "We want to
transformation around and pasting it on everything from baby diapers to "How to Write a Budget" workshops as the latest hypnotic
be in the world in a way that honors the justice that we
marketing voodoo. The same tired products and ineffectual programs are becoming
faster, stronger caterpillar?" What would the world look
"transformative" this and "transformational" that, hoping to gain the allure of freshly
see what butterfly emerges.
brushed pearly whites just by adding that oh-so-enticing gleaming star of
seek: are we asking of ourselves to be our best selves? Are we asking of ourselves to go beyond a bigger, like if we did that? Dive down into your own cocoon to Watch the Full Speech | 9 min What is Transformative Change? | 4 min
transformation. The result is that in most cases in which we talk about transformation, we're actually opting for a hyped-up variation on change,
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