We want to create an oasis of Hope on the Internet. This is my first specific writing for a global audience. I shall use it as my Eastern Woodland bio-region, USA as my main reference. Here the trees are almost naked and the light grows shorter by the day allowing nature to rest after the harvest of its seeds. Underground, the quiet beginnings of life that can't yet be seen take new form and wait.
Advent celebrates the unfulfilled.
It is a time to ponder the pregnancy of the earth and ourselves in different seasons of our lives. It is a time of silence and mysterious riches. And in this North American culture there is the new calendar of commerce which defines this season as shopping days before Christmas. Anyone in this culture who tries to live deeply the season of Advent experiences serious inner clash with this season of commerce. In the spirit of this Advent season and in the spirit of Hope for all the flowers yet to come, I offer here part of a happy interview I had with Carl McColman, Audio Buyer for NEW LEAF distributors.