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I would like to tell you about a grizzly bear. Not bears in general but a very specific bear. An individual.

Teton Totem came to Jean as a child of divorce. Born in captivity, his owner had 30 bears and with>

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After a 5 month long nap, Humble Bumble, one Earthfire Institute’s resident grizzly bears, is awake and delighting in life.

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In many places the robin is the harbinger of spring. Here it is when we first see a bright-eyed fuzzy little thing poking its head up above the snow, looking around, apparently in disgust because it shortly disappears. But then>

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I had a huge epiphany about one hour before co-hosting Listening to Animal Voices with Susan Eirich of Earthfire Institute. It was a moment of intense emotion, a combination of awe, gratitude, and a little bit of nerves. I suddenly realized that>

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How is that one particular fox out of 800 is rescued from a fur farm to live a full long life of loving a teaching? 

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In many places the robin is the harbinger of spring. Here it is when we first see a bright-eyed fuzzy little thing poking its head up above the snow, looking around, apparently in disgust because it shortly disappears. But then>

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A skunk, of all things. . . three times. We held our teleseminar on Listening to Animal Voices last week. After hearing their voices through stories, we went on a guided journey up the Rainbow Bridge to join a circle of>

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A beautiful poem narrated by the peerless Norman Bailey, about listening to things that cannot be heard through our ears but through our hearts. The animals, without thinking they are always listening and we are linked by the great listening>

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Exquisit slow motion video of wolves running

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I went to a meditation retreat recently, seeking the deepest, most effective way to help the animals’ voices be heard, but at first all I could think of was chickens. The food was vegetarian and there were huge bowls of>

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