Author: Michael Tino

Stress

Sometimes, when I feel a lot of stress, I imagine myself sitting on the shore in Homer, Alaska, a place I visited once–in 2007. There was something magical about that place where, under the 24-hour sunlight of late May the mountains gleamed across the Kachemak Bay from a tiny fishing village at the end of all highways.  And so, I picture myself sitting on the gravel spit and painting the awesome beauty all around me, watching bald eagles take flight across the steel gray water. – Michael Tino (CLF)

Where might you imagine yourself today?

True

Sometimes I feel like I’ve imagined my whole worldview into being. I believe in and care deeply about the animacy of the world — meaning that I see many forms of life as having agency and personhood, even if that personhood is very different from my own, and beyond my full understanding. The white, colonial culture I was raised in taught me the opposite, but my attempts to be in an ongoing decolonial process have pushed me towards a more animate, relational worldview. Imagination has been central to that process. The line between ‘imagining’ and ‘seeing something true’ now feel very blurred to me, which I think is exactly as it should be. -Rose Gallogly (CLF)

What do you imagine is true about the world around you?

Easter

The holiest day in the Christian calendar is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, celebrated on Easter Sunday. The inspiration of this miracle is to make the necessary teachings of Jesus live in the world–it inspired his followers to keep on going when they least wanted to.

How can you imagine something necessary in your life being given new life?

Dreams

​”It is always miraculous to see a dream take shape and form.  Dreams in themselves are made of the chiffon of [people’s] hopes, desires and aspirings.  There may be no limit to their fabulous unfolding, rich in all the magic of the fantastic.” -Howard Thurman

Dream, hope, desire, aspire today.