Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Crossing Divides: The hostel promoting tourism to ease Israel’s tensions By Lucy Sherriff Nazareth, Israel, BBC.com, 16 February 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51446690 In 2005, a hostel in the old city of Nazareth opened its doors amid a swirl of rumour, gossip and accusations. The 60-bed dwelling, in a 200-year-old Arab mansion, was run by an unlikely pair: […]
Associated Press, Feb. 7, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/tblr886 The spaceflyer spent nearly 11 months in orbit, setting a new record for longest spaceflight by a woman. MOSCOW — NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday along with two of […]
A time lapse of the building of an emergency hospital in Wuhan. Fast Company: How Chinese officials built a hospital in 10 days to treat coronavirus victims
Our loving thoughts go out to everyone in Wuhan, all others in China, and anyone else in the world affected by the Coronavirus outbreak, this latest human catastrophe. It joins Australia and Indonesia in the spotlight of the world’s attention. I personally cannot recall a time, short of war, when so many catastrophes were facing […]
So much is going on in our world and universe right now, it’s difficult to ignore. Even if our choice is to ‘stick our heads in the sand,’ the ‘sand’ is literally and figuratively being removed from around our head faster than we can bury our head! Everyone is talking and sharing their experiences and […]
When I saw this story on Facebook recently I was amazed to see that it came from 2017. Obviously it did not make mainstream media news reports. It’s encouraging to see that making a world that works for everyone is not just limited to a small segment of our society. And it is doubly encouraging […]
Marianne Williamson dropped out of the race for President for the United States on January 10 of this year, but gave a very enthusiastically received speech at a book store in Exeter, New Hampshire, January 13th. See below. Recently, in a message to supporters, she said that she’d back the Democratic nominee, no matter who […]
The west coast of North America has suffered from huge wildfires just as Australia. Below are two posts encouraging us to allow our Indigenous brothers and sisters to share their knowledge of cultural burning. “It’s Miraculous’: Owners Say Cultural Burning Saved their Property By Ella Archibald-Binge and Rhett Wyman, The Sydney Herald, January 6, 2020 […]
Elton John Pledges $1 Million to Australia Bushfire Relief Rolling Stone, Jan. 8, 2020 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-donate-australian-bushfires-934693/ “There are people out there who have lost their lives trying to save homes,” artist said during a concert in Sydney Elton John has pledged to donate $1 million to the relief fund for those affected by the Australian bushfire […]
Guest Writer Who is God? Nancy Badger “The body is the temple of God; in everybody, God is installed whether the owner of the body recognizes it or not. It is God that inspires you to good acts, that warns you against the bad. Listen to that voice. Obey that voice, and you will not […]
Excerpt from: 36 Powerful Images Of Women Protesters Leading From The Front Across The World Anuj Tiwar, India Times, Dec 26, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/sag7ycc Celebrating the power and courage of all the women and girls across the world who have to taken to the streets for their beliefs in gender equality, violence and democratic values. Here […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca December 3-10th, 2019, a group of us travelled with Kelly Oswald, owner of The Oracle, and her husband, James, to the tip of the Baja Peninsula, Cabos San Lucas, Mexico. Kelly’s friend, Adriana, helped chaperone us as we visited foundations assisting beautiful women and children living in poverty and often violence. We participated in […]
Guest Writer (Concluded from Part 2, yesterday.) New Humanitarians: We Must Start Where We Are Part 3/3 – The Long, Long, Long Term By Shayne Laughter, ©2019 Feels like we’ve been waiting forever for the RV. Of course we haven’t. But whether it’s five years like me or fifteen years like some, looking back at […]
Guest Writer (Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) New Humanitarians: We Must Start Where We Are Part 2/3 – Let’s Communicate! By Shayne Laughter, ©2019 It’s been lonely, waiting for the RV. All this planning, revising, searching out and vetting information … and I can’t share a word of it with my nearest and dearest. Because […]
Guest Writer New Humanitarians: We Must Start Where We Are Part 1/3 – Look Where It’s Already Happening By Shayne Laughter, ©2019 It’s been fun waiting on the RV! That’s only partly sarcastic. Frankly, I’ve needed the waiting time to allow my plans and visions to evolve. One thing that occurred to me is this: […]
