This first season highlights environmental stewards, students, and professionals who dedicate their lives (and their Saturday mornings) to caring for our watershed (the area of land that ultimately drains into the river). The Sacramento watershed is the largest in the state, ultimately supplying so many of us with water, from the tippy top to the toe. My hometown receives a large percentage of its water from the nearby reservoir, Lake Berryessa, and its offspring, Lake Solano.
In this season we focus on caring for the ecosystem that purifies and provides our water: when the plants and animals are happy, the water is happy. Over the course of 4 months, I worked every week with the Putah Creek Council, their stewardship team, their One Creek Interns, and their partners to do our little part in taking care of the substance that give us all life. I also joined up with One Tree Planted to plant trees and gardens with the same aim: to care for the elements that care for us.
To join us, find out where your hometown gets its water, and what it's watershed looks like and needs for wellbeing.
In this season we focus on caring for the ecosystem that purifies and provides our water: when the plants and animals are happy, the water is happy. Over the course of 4 months, I worked every week with the Putah Creek Council, their stewardship team, their One Creek Interns, and their partners to do our little part in taking care of the substance that give us all life. I also joined up with One Tree Planted to plant trees and gardens with the same aim: to care for the elements that care for us.
To join us, find out where your hometown gets its water, and what it's watershed looks like and needs for wellbeing.
This spring season features an all-star cast of volunteers and organizations that support DIY habitat restoration and home sustainability.
Every full and new moon a new mini-series is released to highlight different projects that demonstrate practices that can be adopted by everyday folks, like us.
Make sure to read the descriptions of the videos for more information on the organizations and on how you, too, can love Earth in your own backyard -one step at a time.
Every full and new moon a new mini-series is released to highlight different projects that demonstrate practices that can be adopted by everyday folks, like us.
Make sure to read the descriptions of the videos for more information on the organizations and on how you, too, can love Earth in your own backyard -one step at a time.
Living Mirror Creative Reflection
Songs & stories of the grace and growth that comes by seeing, and loving, our reflection in all.
Service
Caring for each other and the Earth is caring for ourselves.
Community
Cuz it's just so much better together.
Songs & stories of the grace and growth that comes by seeing, and loving, our reflection in all.
Service
Caring for each other and the Earth is caring for ourselves.
Community
Cuz it's just so much better together.
How It Came to Be
This series is born of a yearning. For years I suffered from debilitating anxiety. Something in me just always felt like something was off, and the angst took its toll on my life in many ways: I had severe IBS. Insomnia. Depression. Even as on the outside I think I looked quite happy, it's been hard for me to know how to be part of the world.
What was missing was trust. The world seemed so out of whack, and the only thing I knew to do was fight back. But, ultimately, the fight put me out whack right with it, and I was lost. I couldn't stay in my job. No path seemed right. So I traveled around the world in search in of new sight.
No map. Money in and out. Home on my back. From Hawaii to Zimbabwe, the heartland to the sea, I went looking for peace.
Committed to seeing myself in everything, This Wonderful World is what came to me. I wondered: what does it mean that "we are all one"? I took it literally. What if I'm the roads and the mattress pad and my enemies? Life became poetry. Everything began to have meaning.
It's been a commitment that went as far as a tattoo on my ring finger. I married the living mirror.
But it hasn't always been a cup of tea, believe me. Sure it's nice to see myself in blue skies, but what about the bad guys? Finding myself in the ones I've wanted to fight was a sure path for the ego to die. That's not to say it has the ego has no place in our lives, but the mirror doesn't lie. Sometimes it's just a hard truth: I am no different than you.
It was surprisingly freeing. As I accepted that I never had any control over what you do, with you as my mirror, at least I can learn from you. Apparently, we're in this together. We're all doing our best to fare the stormy weather.
Still, of all the mirrors, I have found no greater reflection than the one I find in nature. Perfectly designed to stand the test the time, whenever I feel confused, the metaphors of the Earth always come through. Above all, they have shown me to have patience with our becoming. We are an endless evolution made by the kind of pressure that makes diamonds.
So I'm learning to trust us as sprouts as much as the old fallen trees breaking down. I'm coming to trust the cycles where sometimes we're silent, and sometimes we're loud. It all plays a part in the never-ending becoming of This Wonderful World where seeing it as wonderful makes it so.
This show is an invitation to join in the magic of loving what we are as we churn into what we're becoming. Here, the lines blur between singing and drumming: we're all part of the song. Over a decade into my journey, This Wonderful World ultimately came to me simply: we know that this world is wonderful, because we're the ones making it- with love.
Each season opens the door for you to join me in our growth as serving the living mirror points us all home to where we've always wanted to be:
together.
Thank you for joining me.
What was missing was trust. The world seemed so out of whack, and the only thing I knew to do was fight back. But, ultimately, the fight put me out whack right with it, and I was lost. I couldn't stay in my job. No path seemed right. So I traveled around the world in search in of new sight.
No map. Money in and out. Home on my back. From Hawaii to Zimbabwe, the heartland to the sea, I went looking for peace.
Committed to seeing myself in everything, This Wonderful World is what came to me. I wondered: what does it mean that "we are all one"? I took it literally. What if I'm the roads and the mattress pad and my enemies? Life became poetry. Everything began to have meaning.
It's been a commitment that went as far as a tattoo on my ring finger. I married the living mirror.
But it hasn't always been a cup of tea, believe me. Sure it's nice to see myself in blue skies, but what about the bad guys? Finding myself in the ones I've wanted to fight was a sure path for the ego to die. That's not to say it has the ego has no place in our lives, but the mirror doesn't lie. Sometimes it's just a hard truth: I am no different than you.
It was surprisingly freeing. As I accepted that I never had any control over what you do, with you as my mirror, at least I can learn from you. Apparently, we're in this together. We're all doing our best to fare the stormy weather.
Still, of all the mirrors, I have found no greater reflection than the one I find in nature. Perfectly designed to stand the test the time, whenever I feel confused, the metaphors of the Earth always come through. Above all, they have shown me to have patience with our becoming. We are an endless evolution made by the kind of pressure that makes diamonds.
So I'm learning to trust us as sprouts as much as the old fallen trees breaking down. I'm coming to trust the cycles where sometimes we're silent, and sometimes we're loud. It all plays a part in the never-ending becoming of This Wonderful World where seeing it as wonderful makes it so.
This show is an invitation to join in the magic of loving what we are as we churn into what we're becoming. Here, the lines blur between singing and drumming: we're all part of the song. Over a decade into my journey, This Wonderful World ultimately came to me simply: we know that this world is wonderful, because we're the ones making it- with love.
Each season opens the door for you to join me in our growth as serving the living mirror points us all home to where we've always wanted to be:
together.
Thank you for joining me.
