by Kim Ort | Jul 18, 2018 | Belonging / Connection, Contemplation, Photography, Place, Projects, Seeing
Last week, I told you about my eco-awakening in childhood and encouraged you to reflect on your own. I’ve had several eco-awakenings in adulthood and today I’ll share one that occurred while doing a Masters degree in Earth Literacy more than ten years ago. The entire...
by Kim Ort | Jul 11, 2018 | Belonging / Connection, Contemplation, Education, Topics, Workshops
The Great Work of Thomas Berry One of the wisest writers I’ve ever encountered is Thomas Berry, Passionist priest, and historian of world religions and earth processes. Years ago, I read something that he wrote that has stayed with me ever since. That is, “The Earth...
by Kim Ort | May 10, 2017 | Belonging / Connection, Compassion, Contemplation, Seeing
Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” I learned about the origin of this word in this Brain Pickings article. To summarize, the word empathy came into being in the late 1860’s when philosopher Theodor Lipps...
