Toward a World that Works for Everyone
María Luisa, her husband, Luis Carlos, and their daughters, Mar and Sol, had embarked on a journey to protect one small corner of this fragile world by restoring a mountain landscape that supports native orchids and their pollinators. Over the course of nearly two decades, the slopes of María’s mountain transformed. Butterflies had returned. Bees […]
Stig Pryds is a Danish record holding freediver. He was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, which disabled him so much that he lost his business. After 5 years of intense pain and increasing dependency on drugs, he decided to quit all drugs cold turkey, and find alternative ways to deal with his disease. He […]
Hold the Line! Paulette Stevens, Contributing Writer, Operation Disclosure, January 13, 2021 (https://operationdisclosure.blogspot.com/2021/01/hold-line-paulette-stevens.html#more) After reading Thinker2’s recent article, as he plays the role of ‘devil’s advocate’ in questioning our trust of certain spokesmen in this freedom movement, I realized my own weariness and vulnerability at the end of this long and messy slog to discover […]
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic. (Especially interesting are their peacemaking circles.) The political and social cacophony of recent years has drowned out expressions of compassion and unity. If we listen carefully, we can hear the rational, gracious, intensely determined voices of the nation’s First […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca An NPR article I posted about the explosion that tore through Beirut’s port area on Tuesday, August 4th, stated that: “Ammonium nitrate is the same raw material Timothy McVeigh used to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. In that deadly attack, 2 tons of the fertilizer were used. […]
(Originally published JULY 21, 2018) John Pavlovitz, https://tinyurl.com/y5tc85rq It’s exhausting to give a damn isn’t it? To be a person of compassion in a time when compassion is in such great demand? To wake up every day in days like these, and push back against predatory politicians and toxic systems and human rights atrocities and […]
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 […]
By James Doubek, NPR, March 9, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813699719/mexican-women-stay-home-to-protest-femicides-in-a-day-without-us What would happen if all the women in a country simply disappeared? Mexico got a preview Monday, when women across the country stayed home as part of a 24-hour strike to protest staggering levels of violence against women. Calling it “a day without us” or “a day […]
Channeled Gem: Universal Mother Mary: “Mother, what shall I celebrate?” https://counciloflove.com/2019/09/universal-mother-mary-mother-what-shall-i-celebrate/ At the behest of the Mother, Susan shares this beautiful channelled gem from her personal reading with Linda Dillon. Universal Mother Mary: Greetings, I am Mary, I am Mare, (1) Universal Mother, Mother of Hope, Mother of Love, Mother of One, Mother of All […]
