by Garrison Institute | Dec 26, 2025 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Get Inspired, Insights, Read
Another holiday season is passing into memory while the current year expires and a new one waits to be born. With the Winter Solstice just past, the days are once again lengthening even as they turn colder in the long months before the green pulse of spring quickens...
by Garrison Institute | Jun 21, 2018 | Insights
It is a beautiful, sunny day not long before the summer solstice and I am hiking once again in the mountains near my home in western North Carolina. For weeks before this, the late spring sky has been overcast, or it has rained – seemingly non-stop in dismal and...
by Garrison Institute | Jul 18, 2017 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Social Change
The phrase “voluntary simplicity” has, to my ears anyway, a quasi-paradoxical ring to it, not unlike “waking dream.” It accrues meaning by pointing to the implicit assumption in its antithesis: That we are by default, if not involuntarily, immersed in a world that...
