Receiving the prestigious People's Choice SDGs Award for our regenerative agriculture project was an exceptional experience of communion for us, not only in Kenya, but the entire St. Joseph of Tarbes family.
I have made it a point of urgency to speak to people about care for the Earth by engaging them in making concerted efforts to plant more trees, reduce water wastage, and keep the environment clean.
Rereading Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" recently, I realized that many seeds for the consciousness we're struggling to act out of today may have been germinating back when it debuted in 1938.
In Kenya, sisters coordinated training to regenerate degraded soil and grow organic food and entrepreneurial skills to help people start projects and generate income.
The Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph have been taking care of 750 acres of land in Kentucky since 1874. The farm is in our blood, and as we moved to leasing it, our questions centered on protecting the land.
A recent splash in a flowing stream of cool water gave me a renewed sense of inner peace and harmony with all of creation, a feeling of coming home to my true self.