♫ Peace Train ♫ (Redux)

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Yesterday’s music post, the Rascal’s “People Got To Be Free”, led to this one today!  Our friend rawgod tells me that this one was ‘just there’ in his head, a natural sequel as it were.  Happens that I agree.  I have posted this one twice before … once in 2019 and once in 2020 … and both times, I noted that it was so very appropriate for the current times.  Two years ago, it was the Christchurch mosque attack, today it is Russia’s war against Ukraine. Here we are two years later and it is still the perfect song for the day.  Perhaps it always will be.  Namaste.


A National Remembrance Service for the victims of the Christchurch mosques terrorist attack, and all those affected by it, was held this morning.  Yusuf Islam, better known to the world as Cat Stevens, performed his 1971 song, Peace Train, and I…

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Good People Doing Good Things — In The Aftermath Of Ian

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Last week, Hurricane Ian struck the state of Florida, wrecking homes, businesses, and taking over 100 lives in its path of devastation.  Some of our own friends — Horty & MJ, Scottie & Ron, Mary, Larry and others — were directly affected and our heart goes out to them.  Just as with any natural disaster, people dig down and find their good side, putting pettiness aside to help those in need.  Today’s ‘good people’ post focuses on just a few of those good people.


Small in stature, but with a big heart

Dominic D’Andrea is 7 years old and lives in Indiana … some 1,100 miles from Ft. Myers, Florida, but when his mother explained to him what a hurricane is and how Hurricane Ian had destroyed homes and cost people their lives, he rallied to the cause.  Dominic retrieved his ‘piggy bank’ (actually a rather large jar) and said…

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COVID-19 higher in New York — again — than other parts of the U.S.

COVID-19 levels are rising again in New York, at a time when pandemic-era safety measures have all but disappeared, with masking gone by the wayside, mass vaccination sites closed and some data tracking — such as cases in schools — eliminated.

According to the current U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 map, updated Sept. 29, most New York counties have medium or high levels of COVID-19, as indicated by shading in yellow and orange. The rest of the U.S. is overwhelmingly pigmented green on the map, indicating low COVID-19 levels.

Source: COVID-19 higher in New York — again — than other parts of the U.S.

Record turkey prices expected as holidays approach – Texas Farm Bureau (Me: Bird flu has biggest impact increase in turkey prices)

Consumers can expect to pay record high prices at the grocery store for turkey this upcoming holiday season thanks to the impacts of avian influenza and inflation. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) economists analyzed turkey and egg costs in the latest Market Intel.

The retail price for fresh boneless, skinless turkey breast reached a record high of $6.70 per pound in September, 112% higher than the same time in 2021 when prices were $3.16 per pound. The previous record high price was $5.88 per pound in November 2015, during the 2015 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak.

Inflation is contributing to the price increases. All retail food prices were 11.4% higher in August compared to the same time last year.

Source: Record turkey prices expected as holidays approach – Texas Farm Bureau

Jamaican solar and energy conservation company lights up in energy transition

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We need more stories on climate change (and solutions) written by regional (Caribbean) writers. This was the idea behind Climate Tracker’sCaribbean Energy Transition Journalism Programme for thirty young journalists from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and Guyana. Sad to say (and I am not sure why) Jamaicans taking advantage of this opportunity were few and far between; I am not sure why climate change issues are not of great interest to Jamaican journalists – but hope this perception of mine is wrong. Nevertheless, Jamaican reporters do a good job reporting, almost daily, on climate change-related issues – droughts affecting farmers, floods, coastal erosion, and more. Perhaps it is making that connection that is missing.

Come on, Jamaican journalists, I know you can do better! Perhaps a weekly television feature like Al Jazeera’s “Earthrise” programme would be impactful.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Ryan Bachoo will be representing the Caribbean at COP27 in…

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The Yanomami ask for everyone’s attention, please! Yanomami children are dying!   — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami child Since July 2020, twenty thousand illegal gold miners have criminally invaded our territory! They deforest and destroy our land, contaminate our water, soil and fish with mercury, harass our women and girls and threaten us with guns!  Destruction by gold mining in Indigenous territory We use the water in our rivers and streams […]

The Yanomami ask for everyone’s attention, please! Yanomami children are dying!   — Barbara Crane Navarro

Balsas de garimpo ilegal voltam a bloquear o rio Madeira! — Barbara Crane Navarro

A atividade predatória ocorre na altura da comunidade de Fortaleza do Bom Intento, município de Manicoré, estado do Amazonas Imagem de satélite PLANETº da comunidade de Fortaleza do Bom Intento (AM) analisada pelo Greenpeace Brasil na segunda-feira (26) São Paulo, 28 de setembro de 2021 – Imagens de satélite analisadas pelo Greenpeace Brasil na última […] […]

Balsas de garimpo ilegal voltam a bloquear o rio Madeira! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Contes animés en langue indigène (et traduits) – Les Ch’oles – L’origine de la vie — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Publié le 19 Novembre 2016 L’ORIGINE DE LA VIE On raconte qu’il y a très longtemps, Ch’ujtiat , le señor du ciel a créé la Terre et douze hommes immortels pour la charger sur leurs épaules.Quand ceux-ci se fatiguent et la changent de position les tremblements en tirent l’origine.Plus tard, il a créé les premiers […] […] […]

Contes animés en langue indigène (et traduits) – Les Ch’oles – L’origine de la vie — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Don’t Allow Stress to Snatch Your Fire and Passion from Your Spiritual Health

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There are so many people experiencing a spiritual recession right now. An economic recession is a significant decline in economic activity found in production, employment, and income. A recession begins when the economy reaches the pinnacle of economic activity and ends when the economy reaches its lowest point of activity. Yet, how does this affect our spiritual health? Does it send it spiraling into a spiritual recession?

Indicators of a spiritual recession result in a decline in our groundedness, communion, and fellowship with God. Is our spiritual recession a result of us taking our attention off of God, but now we somehow find ourselves weak, weary, frustrated, depressed, and crying out to Him for help?

When experiencing a spiritual recession, you tend to lack hope, energy, purpose, connection, confidence, excitement, and faith. You lose your fire, and your passion is diluted by stress. For the moment…

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