Category: Stella Kanto
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The Language of Gratitude
Read more: The Language of GratitudeRobin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass discusses various native North American cultures and their wisdom regarding coexistence in respectful reciprocity with nonhuman beings. Kimmerer’s insights of the significance of language systems in defining our perception of nonhumans, and thus our relationship with them, help to shed light on why this relationship is rather unbalanced in the…
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Whose Body Is This?
Read more: Whose Body Is This?Clutching the steering wheel of my mother’s car, my hands suddenly catch my attention, as if a ray of sun suddenly shone on the muddy backwaters of my mind and exposed the millions of microscopic particles floating in the constant stream of experience. The knuckles poking out like the rounded tops of an ancient mountain…
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How To Be Unstoppable: Interview with Vellu Saarela
Read more: How To Be Unstoppable: Interview with Vellu SaarelaWith a swing of the leg and an arch of the back, his toes draw a circle high up in the air. A light greeting to the sky-blue spring floor in between, and he’s back in the air again. Every time you think he’s going to finish a sequence, you’re wrong. And you never know what’s…
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Ode to Smiling at Strangers
Read more: Ode to Smiling at StrangersThe second glance, the eyebrows raised ever so slightly. The millisecond of disbelief, quickly melting into surprised delight. The little flash of warmth in the chest. “That stranger just smiled at me.” And flustered cheeks rise like bread in the oven. How about that little gasp in your heart when an especially attractive someone randomly beams…
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Upside Down Lessons
Read more: Upside Down LessonsI spend a reasonable amount of time balancing the rest of my body on my hands. An intricate cocktail of corporal coordination, concentration and sheer willpower, handstands will let you look at the world from a different perspective (heh). Years of negotiating with gravity in this way have rewarded me not only with an increased…
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