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Ecola I walked by the sea-creek side. The wind laughed, the gulls cried. Sweet water lapped on the salt sand between the deep sea and the deep land. Ursula K. LeGuin Years ago, Joseph Campbell told us that the poets would save us. I begin to understand. …
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It might seem incredulous that there were peaceful, cooperative, undefended cities in so called prehistory. But go back as recently as 1492, when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in search of a route to China and India. Luckily for him and his crew, there was land in between, and after nearly 3 months of…
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When you have peaceful, cooperative cities that are unfortified: no walls or fortresses – that have not developed weapons of death: there was no need for those things, as their neighbors were friendly – and violent warring tribes from the surrounding arid lands invade and destroy everything in their path, installing their vengeful, jealous…
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"Our hopes for peaceful human coexistence are not, as we are so often told, utopian dreams." Riane Eisler Peaceful cooperation existed long, long ago and set…
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The word obscene in Greek Tragedies meant that the action took place off scene, behind the curtain, because it was too terrible to actually depict on stage. I've gone back 100 years to shake up the past and improve our lives. Going back farther one is confronted with obscene brutality. Imperialism –…
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…It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil rights lawyer who was tinkering with the machine, and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land if we just filed the next best lawsuit, or met the the governor, or organize the right number of people for the next protest,…
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So, in my alternate universe… There was no degradation of the earth. Clean Air. Clean Water. No lies, no wars in the oil rich Middle East, no lives lost. The U.S. military would be doing what it is charged with- protecting Democracy, not dismantling it worldwide. Cancer would still be a rare disease, not…
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There is an interview with the Four Women of "The Squad" on Democracy Now. After reading the transcript of these four diverse women, at a time when I was getting very disheartened about the state of the country and the world, I found HOPE! They are, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley…
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While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant. Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…
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What if, instead of multiple networks of highways, America was crisscrossed with lines of light rail? And there were lovely terminals scattered everywhere, and people could travel safely and comfortably, south to north and east to west and back again, in climate controlled modern rail cars? Imagine the lives that wouldn't have been…
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