Biography
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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“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
Biography
Megan Hollingsworth, MS
Meg is a writer with an interdisciplinary education in community health and environmental studies. She is currently an East West Psychology doctoral student at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her work is deeply influenced by her Quaker upbringing, Engaged Buddhism, and faith in essential goodness. She enjoys playing haiku on purpose.
Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Quakerism is a Christian faith grounded in direct experience of God, known to Friends as the Inner Light. For more with a brief on Meg’s roots in Quaker faith and practice, please see Friends.
Engaged Buddhism
For a sample of what we mean by Engaged Buddhism, please read Rewilding, Healing, Regeneration and Transformation for the Land by Mick McEvoy, Plum Village’s Happy Farm.
This photograph is from a release of Pollinator Posse’s “fostered” monarch butterflies for educational purposes at The Gardens at Lake Merrit in Oakland, California. Please read Xerces Society’s joint statement on how popular large-scale captive rearing can harm monarchs: Joint Statement Regarding Captive Breeding and Releasing of Monarchs
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