Category: Social issues

• On May Sarton’s Big Questions

  

  May Sarton asked the big ethical questions many seek to ignore.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 5, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Landscape, Nature, Racism, Terror, Social issues, spirituality, spring, Stories, Summer, writing writers

  Arts, compassion, ethics, faith, May Sarton, nature, philosophy, questions, stories, Summer

• All Things Arise and Fade Away

  

  We awoke to bright sun, instead of the forecast dense cloud. The birds have been oddly quiet after being rowdy yesterday. As we watched, a starling stuck its head into the sparrows’ bird house, perhaps after chicks or eggs, then flew away. Now the sparrows are chirping loudly. This morning I sat down in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 28, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Cycles, denial, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  chance, change, evolution, natural systems, nature, Sound Art, writing

• Deportation Echoes

  

  A soundscape in response to he Supreme Courts ruling on Deportations.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 20, 2025

  Cycles, denial, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Racism, Terror, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  Deportations, healing, History, racism, stories, terror

• Easter

  

  First, a Joyous Easter to all who celebrate the day! Today dawned warmish and grumpy, with a fierce blow out of the northwest. Now the sky has cleared and stiff breeze that moves branches around. Lately I notice myself having next administration revenge fantasies which reminds me that trauma always begets trauma, and that what…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 20, 2025

  First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Hungry Ghosts, self care, Shamanism, Social issues, spirituality, spring

  Easter, healing, Jesus, Native American, Shamanism, trauma