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What Lies Ahead?

From Behind the Pen

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Oh my goodness, here I am on another new and beautiful day. I can’t define or even quantify the way I feel right now because it’s a bit of anxiousness, and anticipation mixed with excitement. While that seems like a bizarre twist of emotions, trust me, it is. But, as I lasso in this wagon of adventure and hitch it up to my journey like a horse-drawn carriage, while the road ahead may not always be a smooth ride, it’s a ride that I am sure I will learn from, and not soon forget.

What lies ahead? No one knows for sure, not even a fortune teller peering through their crystal ball trying to predict the future. All I can tell ya is, hold on and prepare for the amazing, great unknown, like riding a wild bronco bucking the rider in a rodeo, but the rider just…

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New Years resolutions: choose life

Darcy Hitchcock

In Paul Hawken’s latest work, Regeneration, he asks us all to turn toward life, to choose actions that are regenerative rather than degenerative. A healthcare system that prioritizes health rather than just fixing symptoms. Agriculture that builds soil and provides habitat. Materials that can be easily composted. Education that teaches sustainability instead of unsustainability.

Watch this webinar about regeneration. https://connect.pachamama.org/group/314/topic/regeneration-putting-life-center-paul-hawken

Sample from https://regeneration.org/punchlist

So if you like to set goals or intentions for the coming year, make the with regeneration in mind. Check out these sample “punch lists” for ideas. https://regeneration.org/punchlist

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Already In 2022 … Guns And Death

Filosofa's Word

As I write this post, it is just after 10:00 p.m. on January 1st 2022 in the U.S. and already 99 people have lost their lives to gun violence in the first 22 hours of the new year.  One of my New Year’s hopes I wrote about in a previous post was that reasonable gun laws would be enacted by Congress before the end of the year.  Had I taken a moment to write to members of Congress after seeing today’s statistics, my letter would have started with …

Hey, you STUPID Jackass, take your head out of your arse and do something right just for once!!!

But, as our friend Keith reminds me from time to time, that isn’t the right approach. It is certainly the one I felt at that moment in time, though.  There is something wrong with a nation, a society, whose citizens demand to…

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Ann and Anna, (serial short story, Part 14): Words

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      …  Parts 13 (Interruptions)12 (Gifts)11 (Punishment),  10 (Warmth),   9 (Found)8 (Lost)7 (Rock)6 (Believe), 5 (Naming), 4 (Home), 3 (Trust), 2 (Hope), and 1 (Nightmares) have posted on previous Sundays…

 

Part 14: Words

 

     Anna looked back at me, shaking her head ever so slightly.  Now was not the time for questions.  Apparently the state of things was more delicate than I had surmised.

 

“Well, no decisions should be made on an empty stomach.  Young Tilly has helped me to prepare dinner, and there is to be pie afterward.  Then, and not a moment before, we will find some manner of resolving this situation.”

 

The doctor’s wife had spoken, and not an objection was there to be heard.  The doctor placed the sheaf of papers upon…

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Y quien no se atreva… — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA Derechos reservados conforme a la ley/ Copyright Y quien no se atreva, finalmente, a abrazarse a sí mismo y a la gente que le rodea, se condenará a permanecer roto durante el resto de su vida. Amar y entregar lo mejor de sí, no significa rebajarse, perder la libertad o humillarse; […]

Y quien no se atreva… — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives — THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON… — Barbara Crane Navarro

Barbara Crane Navarro: In Her Own Words Artist, Writer, Environmental & Indigenous Rights Activist Bio: Barbara Crane Navarro Barbara Crane Navarro is a French artist, writer, Indigenous and animal activist who lives near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 she studied at Rhode Island School of Design, then she went on to study at the San […] […] […] […]

Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives — THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON… — Barbara Crane Navarro

A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime – Phys.org — — Barbara Crane Navarro

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime – Phys.org https://ift.tt/3BqqReB A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime  Phys.org Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime – Phys.org —

A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime – Phys.org — — Barbara Crane Navarro

Standardisation du vivant : une menace pour l’humanité ! — drdpositif — Barbara Crane Navarro

Le bétail paissent avec une zone brûlée en arrière-plan après un incendie dans la forêt amazonienne près de Novo Progresso, état de Para, Brésil -JOAO LAET/AFP/Getty Images Des forêts aux cheptels bovins, le vivant tend à être de plus en plus uniformisé, afin de maximiser la rentabilité à court terme. Or, en détruisant une biodiversité […]

Standardisation du vivant : une menace pour l’humanité ! — drdpositif — Barbara Crane Navarro