After a seven-year hiatus, the Regional Rainbow Gathering returned to Colorado, nestled in the Uncompahgre Forest looking up at formidable Lone Cone Mountain. Seventy-four or so misfits from across the U.S. camped in scattered tents, vehicles, a Food-Not-Bombs bus, with no fire, good spirits and plenty of weed. My brief stay with the Rainbow family […]
Melina Laroza
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Community is immunity
In post-pandemic America, folks are working harder than ever in exchange for lesser value. The dollar does not go as far, everything costs more and, for many, self-care is nonexistent. It’s no wonder that essential workers are rapidly feeling burned out. Luckily, there are people in our very community who care about every person thriving, […]
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TRE leads the body home
Being on the healer’s journey for years has led me to explore how holistic healing differs from Western medicine. Particularly it focuses on four levels of health — mental, emotional, physical and spiritual — rather than just the physical body. Many people are surprised to learn of a probable connection between the mind and the […]
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Mending the Hoop
Whether colonizer or colonized, oppressor or oppressed, we all are wounded from the illusion of separation between Mother Earth, ourselves and each other. Indigenous peoples who live in tribes connected with their roots are perhaps closer than the rest of us to our Mother. Woody Morrison, a Haida elder who passed away in 2021, wrote […]
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Remendando el Aro
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Ya sea colonizadores o colonizados, opresores u oprimidos, todos estamos heridos por la quimera de separación entre la Madre Tierra, nosotros mismos y entre sí. Los pueblos indígenas que viven en tribus conectadas con sus raíces están quizá más cerca que el resto de nosotros de nuestra Madre. Woody Morrison, un […]