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Wednesday Wisdom…cont…Facts about Halloween and Samhain

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I am going to be lazy and start off with a article first…

10 fun facts you didn’t know about Halloween – USA Today:
Meghan Tankersley
Editor OCTOBER 31, 2019

Long there has been debate whether or not Christianity “stole” Samhain and made it a holiday called Halloween. When large numbers of Irish people emigrated to the United States after the Great Famine in the 19thcentury, they carried their Christian-Pagan tradition with them, which lead to the popularity of Halloween in America today.

Jack o’lantern” comes from the Irish legend of Stingy Jack. The story goes, that Stingy Jack invited the devil to have a drink with him, but Jack didn’t want to pay for the drink, so he convinced the devil to turn himself into a coin. Instead of buying the drink, he pocketed the coin and kept it close to a silver cross…

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The Polluted Environment – And the Damage Done to our Food

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Our food is not the same as it was many years ago

We want food cheaper and then we have sorrow

It is time for us to wake up and pay attention

Food can be our medicine if we get rid of new inventions

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Farmers suffer when we don’t care about their welfare

We just want to eat and don’t think about environmental care

We say the environment will take care of itself while pesticides gets into our water

However, the farmer wants to earn more and uses chemicals and think of health after

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That is why we are seeing more Cancer patients and obese people every day

Even though the price of food keeps on going up as farmers do things in a new way

More machinery and chemicals are used as there is a need for increased earnings

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Workplace changes due to Covid

Raffaello Palandri's Blog

A question that I am often asked as a consultant, in the last year is: are you aware of any changes in workplaces due to Covid?

The most obvious one is the widespread adoption of remote work (or WFH – Work From Home). Now that the situation is easing, many companies are trying to figure out if it would be better to continue with this hybrid approach or not.

I started adopting more consistently the same measures I was applying before COVID.

These measures are meant to foster a deeper understanding of the most intimate needs and purposes of the employees.

I am advocating for remote workplaces since 1998 and I have worked since in building what today are called hybrid workplaces/jobs. I am convinced that finding and then living according to your core purpose and values is more important than just money.

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Sveta Petka (Prepodobna mati Paraskeva) – Paraskeva of the Balkans

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Sveta Petka ili Prepodobna mati Paraskeva bila je hrišćanska vizantijska podvižnica iz 11. vijeka. Svetiteljka je ime Petka dobila (od Srba) po danu u nedjelji – petku. Rodila se u tadašnjem selu Epivatu, kod tadašnjeg grada Kalistratije, koji se nalazi na obali Mramornog mora između Silimvrije i Carigrada, u Trakiji polovinom 10. vijeka. Poticala je iz imućne i pobožne porodice. Imala je brata, koji se zvao Jevtimije, i koji se zamonašio veoma mlad, da bi kasnije postao episkop Maditski (989—996) i svetitelj u gradu Maditu kod Galipolja.

Još kao djevojčica, dok je sa majkom odlazila u crkvu, ona je bila veoma pobožna. Nakon smrti svojih roditelja, željna podvižničkog života, ona napusti roditeljski dom i ode u Carigrad, gde se zamonaši u crkvi Svete Sofije i dobije ime “Paraskeva”, a zatim se zaputi u Jordansku pustinju, živeći strogim asketskim životom, gde se radi Hrista podvizavala sve do svoje starosti. U doba…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Floors, Chapter 6 section II: preparing for adulthood, long-term

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

This post is the rough draft of  Chapter 6, section II, for my non-fiction WiP, Do Better (fka Baby Floors).  

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

      Preparing young people for adulthood, including taking the long term view and setting good habits while young, in preparation for older ages…

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter 6 section I:

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COP26 – Appel à l’action ! Nous devons tous revoir notre rapport à la nature et réorienter notre association avec le consumérisme ! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

« Je ne vois pas de délégation pour les quatre pattes. Je ne vois pas de siège pour les aigles. Nous oublions et nous nous considérons supérieurs. Mais nous ne sommes après tout qu’une partie de la création. Et nous devons considérer cela pour comprendre où nous en sommes. Et nous nous tenons quelque part entre la montagne et la fourmi. Quelque part et seulement là comme partie intégrante de la création. »

  • Le chef Oren Lyons, Nation Seneca, dans une allocution aux organisations non gouvernementales des Nations Unies, Genève, Suisse, 1977

« Les 500 dernières années ont vu une ‘réorganisation rapide, continue et radicale de la vie sur Terre sans précédent géologique’ – l’arrivée du colonialisme européen, de l’impérialisme et de l’expansion associée des systèmes économiques capitalistes conduisant au transfert de maladies, de plantes, d’animaux, de formes de l’utilisation des terres et des systèmes administratifs à tous les coins du…

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How to know if a country is serious about net zero: look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels! —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Fergus Green, UCL Fresh emissions targets from Saudi Arabia and Australia – two of the world’s largest fossil-fuel producers – are due to arrive just in time for global climate talks in Glasgow. These would commit the two countries to reducing domestic emissions to net zero by around mid-century – though both are expected to[…]

How to know if a country is serious about net zero: look at its plans for extracting fossilfuels —

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Nations are making new pledges to cut climate pollution. They aren’t enough! —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Nations are making new pledges to cut climate pollution. They aren’t enough https://ift.tt/3pCQUN6 Nations are beginning pivotal talks to stop extreme climate change, but a new study shows even recent pledges to slow emissions aren’t enough. (Image credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) Superforest via Environment : NPRhttps://ift.tt/2iBXQGl

Nations are making new pledges to cut climate pollution. They aren’t enough —

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