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We love this! Great way to educate children about the Amazon Rainforest and the Yanomami culture! – « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » and « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro – NOW ON KINDLE, TOO! | Barbara Crane Navarro

illustration from « Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl »

« Barbara’s books are well worth the time for you and your children. Amazonian life, for Indigenous communities and wildlife, is at a precipice. Perhaps learning more, and supporting their existence, may change the tide. »

review by Sonia, Marco and the Embajadores del Orinoco team (Independent civic movement that brings together Associations defending the Venezuelan Amazon area and its Indigenous populations) and Coral Modaffari

More information about the book series is here:

Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle!

Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS THIS ONE! 

A 38 second film with Namowë, a Yanomami boy in the Alto Orinoco region, Amazonas, Venezuela

Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle is an excerpt of a film by Barbara Crane Navarro of instants of daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest of Venezuela made to accompany the children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia”

My drawing of Meromi carrying her baby brother, the Yanomami children who, along with their community, inspired me to write the “Amazon Rainforest Magic” series!

I created this 13 minute 16 second film of instants of daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest to accompany my children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia”

– Here’s some information for anyone wondering why this longer version of the Yanomami film, originally posted in June 2014 and viewed over 26,000 times, has recently been rated “over 18”:  The Yanomami women in the film have bare torsos and small children are unclothed, as is traditional for them. There are no scenes that could be considered in any way suggestive. These moments of Yanomami daily life are woven with illustrations from my books of the “Amazon Rainforest Magic” series, available in three languages, both volumes of which show my drawings of Yanomami women and girls with bare torsos.

Thousands of copies of my books have been purchased for schools by a school book distribution company in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. I’ve also shown this film in schools while discussing Yanomami community life in the Amazon Rainforest for decades to acclaim by teachers, parents and students of all ages.

I hope you enjoy it!

Tapirs in the Amazon Rainforest

Source: We love this! Great way to educate children about the Amazon Rainforest and the Yanomami culture! – « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » and « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro – NOW ON KINDLE, TOO! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming — Mother Jones | Barbara Crane Navarro

This story was originally published in Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wander into nature and give a good shout, and only nearby birds, frogs, and squirrels will hear you. 1,392 more words

​​Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming — Mother Jones

Source: Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming — Mother Jones | Barbara Crane Navarro

“A Year Filled with Sunshine” on Happiness Between Tails | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

“A Year Filled with Sunshine” on Happiness Between Tails

 on December 28, 2024

(Graphic created on Canva by Dawn Pisturino)

I hope all of you are experiencing a joyful holiday season! 2025 is just around the corner. I said I would post if something important came up, and it did. Da-AL, of Happiness Between Tails, published my article, “A Year Filled with Sunshine,” on December 26th. Thank you so much, Da-AL, for publishing it!

When I sat down to compose my fourth poetry book, Sun Haiku: 365 Days of Sunshine, I had two intentions in mind: to honor my brother, Mark, who died of melanoma shy of his 40th birthday, and to celebrate the sun, which is the sustaining force for all life on earth.

I lived in California for 24 years, where the sun is practically worshipped as a god. The Beach Boys glorified surfing, beachcombing, and girls running around in bikinis. . .

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Please click HERE to read the rest of the article. Thank you!

Source: “A Year Filled with Sunshine” on Happiness Between Tails | Dawn Pisturino’s Blog

Cancer vaccine should spare next generation from ordeals like my wife’s – Los Angeles Times

…I’m sharing this story now, more than eight years after her diagnosis, because a notorious vaccine skeptic may soon lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for that job, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has previously sued the maker of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, calling it “dangerous and defective” and saying it had caused “severe and life-changing injuries.”

Plenty of scientists and other journalists have fact-checked the widely circulated claims against Gardasil and found them to be exaggerated or outright false; I won’t duplicate their work here. What I do want to convey is some of the “severe and life-changing injuries” from treating one kind of HPV cancer that vaccination can prevent.

My wife was diagnosed in June 2016. Our twins had recently turned 4, and our youngest was 9 months old. Though survival rates for HPV-related throat cancer are relatively high, hearing your children’s mother has a roughly 1 in 7 chance of dying within five years focuses you on one thing at the expense of all others: survival.

Doctors warned my wife that her treatment would be brutal: Her five weekly radiation doses over two months would burn her skin, probably make swallowing food and water intolerable and potentially damage her salivary glands for years or even the rest of her life. All of this turned out to be true. My wife desperately wanted to eat and drink, but sores in her mouth and throat made it impossible.

Imagine that: Starving even though food is easily available, you want to eat that food, and everyone is begging you to eat that food, as if it’s a matter of will power and not the constant burning sensation in your mouth and throat.

She’s healthy now, but every sore throat or enlarged gland — both features of colds and COVID-19 — sparks worry of the Big C’s return. She lives checkup-to-checkup, alternating between relief from the most recent “all clear” to bubbling anxiety as the next appointment approaches. She lives with constant dry mouth and all-too-frequent (and frightening) choking spells…

Source: Cancer vaccine should spare next generation from ordeals like my wife’s – Los Angeles Times