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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Earth
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Simple. A little planet in a grand and glorious galaxy in an unimaginable universe. Our little rock is spinning on its axis, rotating around our star, the sun, which is rotating in the galaxy, which is traveling in the universe, with other galaxies and planets and stars. We've learned so much…
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"…when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir Quote from Brain Pickings on Sunday, by Maria Popova. Butterflies from St. Augustine, Key West…
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Collectively it is time that we imagine a better world. No matter what happens in the next months or years, it is time to put our minds on better things. Call it the power of positive thinking, of visualizing, of collective prayer – it all works and can change the world. Psychopathic…
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American Democracy has been considered an experiment from its earliest days and has been observed for over 200 years to see if self-governance actually works. America has faltered many many times yet she still stands. The way that we participate in the experiment is up to us. Voting is the most crucial…
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Humans are hardwired for kindness and cooperation. That's how we've gotten this far. That's how we will go even farther. As far as we can imagine! Kindness. Compassion. Empathy. Generosity. We take good care of each other. Let's be patient and trusting – Like the good earth that we share. …
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We Are all Humans – wonderfully diverse – who emerged from the same continent. The differences, Asian, Indian, Eskimo, Indigenous, so called Whites, Blacks – are just labels – tags – meaningless. All Human life on the planet emerged from the continent now called Africa. People dispersed to all parts…
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The Earth is breathing a sigh of relief today, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, because her brainy humans have shut down the engines of pollution. No, it can't go on like this – or can it? (There was a reason that manufacturing left the USA, besides cheap labor – lax…
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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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