Father’s Day. A time to celebrate those men who stand steadily by, waving the BBQ brush in the air, strong hands hold gently as you pour out the sadness of your heart. I always think of my dad as the one who would fix everything with patient hands that spoke of his quiet heart. He wasn’t […]
Archives for June 2010
Let’s Rock Their World! – Guest Post by David Wish
The United States’ largest teacher-led, educational reform movement in music education has been unleashed. David Wish, founder and executive director of Little Kids Rock, talks about the exciting benefits of the “Fifth Stream” of music education in US public schools. Will kids actually get to study at school what they listen to at home?
How I Became a Conflicted Omnivore
Meat became much more than just meat for me that day. It has become a real and living issue about love and humanity and a concern about how the way we extend ourselves into the world becomes, in turn, what we are. We become what we do, and what we do is terrible.
Summer Solstice: A Time to Honour Our Sovereignty and Power
Summer Solstice, also known as Litha, occurs as the sun moves out of the sign of Gemini into the Sign of Cancer around June 21st. This is the longest day and shortest night of the solar year…a time to celebrate our sovereignty and our personal power, vitality, and growth.
Honolulu Café
I was going to meet a poet for drinks at 5:00 so I ran some errands on the other side of town. I was early, she was late. I wrote this while I was waiting. Later we drank cheap red and made out, leaning on the hood of a ’55 Chevy .
Can Lifestyles that are Unsustainable be Moral?
In light of our troubled environment, crippled economy and diminishing resources, Nathan Thompson says it’s really time to question the morality of our economic systems as a whole because they have gone global, for better or worse.
BBQ beauties (Better’n Steak and Hot Dogs!)
My husband says you can barbecue an old boot and it would probably taste good. No doubt about it — the aroma of food sizzling on an outdoor grill is always heady and wonderful. But I’d be willing to bet that 99 percent of us barbecue the same-old-same-old: steak, hamburgers and hot dogs. Fess up! Then step on the wild side.
Matowin Speaks Part 1: The Sweat Lodge Deaths
In the wake of manslaughter charges against self-help “guru” James Ray, Mary Black Bonnet takes a hard look at the sweat lodge deaths in Sedona and the appropriation of Native spirituality and customs.
Even in the Best of Families
After 45 years of hiding from her childhood, one abuse survivor is finally able to confront her past with the help of therapy. Slowly, she begins to heal.
The Importance of Eating Ernest (the Lamb): Good Food for Thought
Has the current North American diet — often processed, packaged, and high in sugar and preservatives — led to decreased attention spans, the decline of literate and critical thinking, and potentially even the decline of political conversation and rhetoric? The psychological symptoms of malnutrition after all are unresponsiveness, disinterest in one’s surroundings, listlessness, weariness, apathy, irritability and poor memory. If we are what we eat, most of us are in trouble.
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