Water at Sycamore Pool Dam
Gazing into water can foster a meditative state. If you can’t get out to see some right now, here is a view from the small dam that makes a swimming pool in the creek at Bidwell Park, Chico California.
Desert Oasis
The desert oasis is an important biblical image. The beauty and life-giving power of water in the desert suggest a source of spiritual as well as physical refreshment. Ein Gedi, Spring of the Goat Kid, an oasis near the Dead Sea, is known as the place that future king David hid out from King Saul (I Samuel 24:1-2).
Video: Ne’ot Kedumim, Israel’s Biblical Landscape
Great Egret Takes Flight
Swallows in Northern California
Swallows blending heaven and earth at Five Mile Bridge in Bidwell Park, in our former home in Chico, California.
Passover in the Desert with Wilderness Torah
Passover in the Desert with Wilderness Torah is an annual multi-generational celebration that takes the spring Festival of Freedom back to its wilderness and dessert origins.
Video: Moments of Eternity in the Passing Flow of Life
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
–A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Dirge for the earth and climate change
A haunting ancient Jewish melody with lyrics in Hebrew and English, chanted by the late Cantor Richard Kaplan. Dirges (kinot) of Tisha B’av, the summer fast to commemorate the destruction of the ancient Temples in Jerusalem, are here combined with visuals of our planet’s beauty, the ravages of climate change, and hopes for the future. Made and introduced by Barak Gale.
Be Like the Bird (song and video)
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