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My primary focus is personal and collective peacekeeping. I write poems to transmute chronic grief associated with the exploitation and murder of innocents in the warring culture.

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Megan Hollingsworth, MS, is a writer with an interdisciplinary education in community health and environmental studies. Meg writes poetry and prose in service to collective health. Her work is deeply influenced by her Quaker upbringing, Engaged Buddhism, and faith in essential goodness. In 2012, she initiated the creative spiritual practice Extinction Witness with attention to genocide, habitat loss, and anthropogenic species extinction.

Meg is the author of Frog Song (2023), an educational book for readers ages 9 and up that features an interspecies love poem illustrated by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas and inspired by the life of a rare treefrog called Toughie. Her writing has been published in online journals including Kosmos Journal, Deep Times Journal, and Unpsychology Magazine, and in print anthologies, including LOVE: The Ultimate Answer to the Meaning of Life (2018), What do we do about inequality? - Wicked Problems Collaborative Book I (2016), and Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices (2010).

Meg is currently a dual East West Psychology PhD and MFA student at California Institute of Integral Studies. She lives in Bozeman, Montana with her son.

Peace.

“Everyone has to follow their own path and this requires

a great deal of individual responsibility.”

- Lino Miele, Ashtanga Yoga: The Yoga of Breath, p. 46

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

For a brief introduction to Quakers, please see Barefoot Friends.

Engaged Buddhism

For a sample of what we mean by Engaged Buddhism, please read Rewilding, Healing, Regeneration and Transformation for the Land, a November 2021 update from Mick McEvoy, who helps to manage Plum Village’s Happy Farm project.