Jews have Hanukkah. Christians, Xmas. African-Americans, Kwanzaa. Buddhists? Children's Day. Waylon speaks about the Buddhist holiday of Children's Day ahead of the celebrations on December 21, 2024.

Waylon talks about the importance of embracing and appreciating the seasonality and cold weather as we push back against the effects of climate change.

“The cycle of seasons is natural and something to appreciate, not take for granted. This is just a reminder that nice weather can be snowy weather!” ~ Waylon Lewis

Read more on Elephant Journal on the topic: 

1. Folks love to say “it’s bad weather” when it’s cold, or “it’s nice out” when it’s 60 in December in Colorado. - https://elejrnl.com?p=3268075 
2. Frank. 95 years old. Shoveling 200 feet of snow, a big old smile on his face, eyes clear as day, memory sharp. - https://elejrnl.com?p=3642046 
3. For all my friends who hate Christmas and/or Winter. - https://elejrnl.com?p=1168269 

Waylon talks about living in fear, and why he's making an effort as a journalist to speak to our mindful audience about the facts as they come to light during the Trump presidential transition and beyond.

"Don't live in fear, but *do* be aware and do advocate for the world you want to live in." ~ Waylon Lewis

Shop local and small! Give nothing?! What it means to give goodness.

Read the articles mentioned in the video:

1. https://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/12/elephantjournal-coms-long-awaited-top-10-must-have-green-things-to-buy-for-christmas-list/
2. https://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/12/how-to-be-rich/ 

MAGA/Trump-voting family + Thanksgiving, what’s your approach?

Politics aren’t something we can—or should—put in a private drawer and forget about or overlook.

Read the article on Elephant Journal: https://elejrnl.com?p=4103058

Waylon Lewis lists his favorite books to get the beginner Buddhist, or anyone, started. Bonus: Waylon leads a meditation at the end.

The notion of moreover: we can live life—relationships, work, neuroses—from the point of view of lost in it, lost in all the details, that feeling of overwhelm and chaos (we all know that feeling of busyness and inefficiency) or we can live it above the clouds, with clarity, moreover.

How to get moreover all of it.

Waylon demonstrates how to use natural hierarchy to uplift your life without being uptight.

Many of us have an expectation that spirituality should be pleasant, pretty, affirming. It can be. But it can also be tough, scary, uncomfortable.

What it is, most fundamentally, is natural. In harmony with Nature, we learn to abide by its laws.

Read the article on Elephant Journal: https://elejrnl.com?p=910955

Waylon shares his favorite poem with the Elephant Journal community. Poems can be helpful to us in a spiritual, heartfelt way. But there are also practical, life-helpful poems. And the poem he's sharing today is a practical poem for everyday life, that has been especially helpful for Waylon and his family in recent days.

"This poem is a roadmap for a lot of life's challenges in a way that very few are." ~ Waylon Lewis

Waylon talks with Janette Spiezio of Sustainable Haus, a zero-waste store in Summit, New Jersey. Check out her helpful articles on Elephant!

"The most inspiring woman you’ll want to learn from today!" ~ Waylon Lewis

Waylon talks with Janette about:

> Keys to successful entrepreneurship and why so many zero-waste shops close

> How to actually change society: bottom-up creating more top-down change

> Anti-plastic vs. non-toxic

> Perfection vs. effort

> The power of word of mouth