Intend Peace. Intend Love. Intend Well.
Carolyn Pitts

Created with Canva There were nearly 400 people from around the world on the Zoom calls. As we watched a live-stream image together, we collectively sent love to a 25-year-old Sugar Gum Maple tree for ten minutes. We repeated the exercise for four consecutive days. The tree lives on the grounds of the HeartMath Institute (HMI) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California. Founded in 1991, HMI is a nonprofit organization that has been studying the electrical activity of

“Something’s burning, Mom,” called my daughter as she raced into the kitchen. It was early 2021, and my sense of smell still hadn’t returned after a bout of COVID. Though it eventually came back, scents aren’t as vivid as they once were. Our underrated sense of smell is often ranked the least important of the five senses. In a survey of 400 people published in Brain Sciences , 85% said they’d give up smell if they had to lose one sense—while fewer than 2% would surrender visi

How do you illustrate empathy? That’s the challenge faced by artists Alfonso Pérez Acosta and Noah Scalin for Empatía  (Empathy), the second mural in their Trust Building/s  series in Richmond, Virginia. This four-part project was inspired by StoryCorps’ One Small Step  initiative, which facilitates conversations between people with differing political views. Many of these participants form bonds that persist long after their initial discussion ends. Acosta and Scalin are wea