mountains & molehills

Once again our hearts are burdened and wrung out by the devastating losses and havoc wreaked over the west coast fires.

Today is also the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11. As we commemorate this day we cry over unimaginable lives lost then and now. At 180000 dead, COVID is the equivalent of sixty [! ! !] 9/11s. 

Yet we focus on an election year - pitting one old white man against another. Not able to choose what's best for our nation, only the less destructive choice. Or so we hope. 

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wonder | wander | world wish a world into being that honors and respect ourselves more. Humanity, nature, the environment upheld and uplifted in love and light. 

read read read

This is the time to catch up on all our reading. Not just the news or COVID19 updates. Or all the online feeds spilling over into our lives for those of us who have the luxury of being stuck at home.

wonder | wander | world gives a special shout out for author, activist and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams.

Writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, she is the author of numerous books. Here is a sampling of our top picks for this week.

The environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place interweaving narratives of dying and accommodation that transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace.

Finding Beauty In A Broken World is a compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, affirming a reverence for all life, and constructing a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.

When Women Were Birds is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice?

The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.

indigenous environmental practice

Amidst all the hoopla of the devastation caused by wildfires in Australia - a voice of reason we need to listen and attend. 

We acknowledge that we work on stolen land and pay our respects to First Nations elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Let us pray.

Jamie Graham-Blair is a young and warm-hearted specialist in matters of science, Indigenous resistance and the spiritual world.

His knowledge about environmental conservation is rooted in traditional Aboriginal practices informed by modern science. It's a well rounded approach that seeks to tackle sustainability from all angles.

Through his advocacy Jamie is now asking Australia to listen to Indigenous people in order to survive the environmental and spiritual despair the world is currently facing.

Read what Jamie has to say about the limitations of Euro-centric universities, how Aboriginal people have always been the original scientists and how younger generations are the key to saving the future.

Traditional custodians have always protected country. What if instead of colonizing people came and learned from these guardians of our world?

Week Pick | Jan 2020

wonder | wander | world is proud to share this latest find with you all - Happy 2020! An apt and avid voice given the state of global affairs we are currently challenged with.

The Source project started as a self-funded venture looking to create media that positively connect and communicate some of the most important issues being faced by our environment and as a result by our societies and cultures.

We now work with a variety of ethical organisations and companies to help communicate positive and informative media around issues faced by society.

We specialize in short for documentaries, from 10 seconds to 10 minutes, providing media for all platforms, photography, audio and film. After 15 years being based in Asia, we have now moved back to the UK to continue our work.

Jason Taylor and Chintan Gohil

UK Phone +44 (0) 7778283828

Skype jchindia

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Grist & Fix | solutions-oriented info & action

Need help to make sense of this crazy maddening times?

Try this site out - Grist. As their mantra enthuses: Don’t freak out. Figure it out. 

Take action and join Grist's solution lab, FIX. 

Sleep better at night - knowing there are folks like these who care about us and our world. 

epigenetics on arbor day

wonder | wander | women at wonder | wander | world celebrate and honor two on going themes this month - happy days and science.

The Canlaon Wonder Tree is a 1,328 year old balete or banyan.

Happy Arbor Day! Hope you planted your tree or better yet many trees. 

While we are on the subject of green and growing, let us focus on science in general and epigenetics in particular. 

Say what?