By Megan Wildhood & Ruth Terry, Yes Magazine, July 15, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2020/07/15/hawaii-covid-recovery/ It may be too soon to reopen, but it’s not too early to plan for a recovery. The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spike in many U.S. states, especially those that lifted lockdown restrictions early, but as of July 6, Hawai‘i had only […]
The Kung Fu Nuns of Kathmandu
Editor’s note: This story was reported and photographed in January, before the global pandemic. The text has been updated to reflect the activities of the nuns aimed at COVID-19 prevention. By Windsor Johnson, July 5th, 2020, Goats and Soda https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/07/05/886043783/the-kung-fu-nuns-of-kathmandu Jigme Yeshe Lhamo squats in a powerful kung fu stance. As she raises her 18-inch […]
The White Horse and the Humvees — Standing Rock Is Offering Us a Choice
By Kathleen Dean Moore & Robin Wall Kimmerer, Yes Magazine, November 5th, 2016 https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2016/11/05/the-humvees-and-the-white-horse2014two-futures/ Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures. Two lines, facing each other on a North Dakota highway. On one side, concrete barriers protect a row of armored vehicles […]
How Churches Can Help Heal the Healers
Faith communities should be refuges for healthcare workers suffering moral distress amid COVID-19 By John Allen, Broadview, July 7th, 2020 https://broadview.org/healthcare-churches-moral-distress/ I work as a healthcare chaplain in Missouri and am good friends with a nurse I’ll call Bobbie who works at a neighbouring hospital. Four months ago, we talked and she was angry—due to shortages, […]
Town in Oregon Replaced Some Police with Medics and Mental Health Workers
This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It’s worked for over 30 years By Scottie Andrew, CNN, July 5, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahoots-replace-police-mental-health-trnd/index.html Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to […]
The Lotus as a Metaphor for Our Journey
www.voiceoffreedom.ca The lotus, a symbol of rebirth, compassion and enlightenment, can be seen as a metaphor for our human journey. Its roots, found in the dirtiest water, produce a gorgeous flower. As we observe the chaos without, and continue to do our “clean up” within of the old belief systems, the bigotry, hatred, anxiety and […]
Basic Income Could Cost Less Than Money Spent On CERB: Watchdog
By Zi-Ann Lum, HuffPost, July 7, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/basic-income-cerb-canada-budget_ca The parliamentary budget officer looked at the cost of a six-month basic income. OTTAWA — The federal budget watchdog estimates a six-month guaranteed basic income for all eligible Canadians could cost the government less than what has already been spent on Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) payments […]
Why Global Meditations?
From a Symbiosis of Humans and Technology: “Global Meditation: This simple practice of quieting the mind, and bringing presence to one’s breathing has a long list of documented benefits that include enhanced neural connections, deep feelings of connection and well-being, as well as a strengthened immune system. “When we compound this focused intention to include […]
Hong Kong Security Law: Life Sentences for Breaking China-Imposed Law & an Invocation
By John Sudworth, China Correspondent, BBC, June 30th 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53238004 People in Hong Kong could face life in jail for breaking a controversial and sweeping new security law imposed by China. The legislation came into force on Tuesday but the full text was only revealed hours afterwards. It was brought in by Beijing following increasing […]
Belgian King Conveys ‘Deepest Regrets’ for Brutal Colonial Past in Congo
By Colin Dwyer, NPR, June 30th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178095/belgian-king-conveys-deepest-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-past-in-congo The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” for a colonization […]
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia’s Mountaintop Coal Mines into Farms
By Catherine Moore, Yes Magazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/just-transition/2017/10/12/the-hopeful-work-of-turning-appalachias-mountaintop-coal-mines-into-farms/ On a surface-mine-turned-farm in Mingo County, West Virginia, former coal miner Wilburn Jude plunks down three objects on the bed of his work truck: a piece of coal, a sponge, and a peach. He’s been tasked with bringing in items that represent his life’s past, present, and future. “This […]
What to Say When People Say “It’s Impossible”
By Andrea Brower, Yes Magazine, June 14, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/love-apocalypse/2013/06/14/what-to-say-when-they-say-it-s-impossible/ Those committed to building a more just future must question the taken-for-granted “truths” that support the beliefs that capitalism is the only common-sense possibility and that there is no alternative. We can’t leave this task to the pages of peer-reviewed journals and classrooms of social theory—these […]
The Longer Wave Pattern Creates Rejuvenation, Gentleness on Gaia
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Surrendering to Love, with forgiveness, compassion and gratitude for the past, we are reassuring our ego — we are relaxing — and the vibrations in our fields expand. According to Ashira (1) Commander of the United Forces of the Outer Galaxies, UFOG when we think of our time-line in terms of a ruler, we, […]
Why I’m Making, Selling and Donating Face Masks
www.voiceoffreedom.ca My principal guide in January 2012 said to me in a reading, with Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love: “Viruses are simply ideas that get transmitted.” At the time I had no idea what she was talking about. Now it makes sense. Recently I’ve had two emails telling me to stop making […]
The Universal Law of Instantaneous Transmission and Transformation
www.voiceoffreedom.ca The Universal Law of Instantaneous Transmission and Transformation is our activation, by conscious choice, of what we choose to experience and what we choose to bring forth, the transformation of our sacred self. We are turning on, in conjunction with the Mother, the perfection of our soul design, the expression of greater Love. Sanat […]
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