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Before we eat dinner together, my family does a blessing each night. Much of the time, we hold hands, center ourselves, and say what we are thankful for in that moment. Tonight, I said I was thankful for the tenacity of hope. Over the past 2 months since my last post, I’ve vacillated back and [...]

“Now is not the time for small plans. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation.” –Barack Obama, 2008 Democratic Nomination Acceptance Speech I’ve been following the Obama story with great interest, and saw most of the big speeches from the Democratic National Convention. This is unusual for me, because I’d stopped listening [...]

For the first time in history, a country has more than 1% of its adult population in prison. And that country, dear readers, is The United States, as reported by The Correctional News, a trade magazine for the prison industry. Do you think maybe that there is a trade magazine for the prison industry has [...]

I took a nice ride tonight on our scooter, about 60 miles round trip, down Route 35 (mostly) from New Gloucester to Hollis. It’s still chilly in Maine, it’s been going into the low 40s at night. Tonight it was raining for the second half of the trip. I’ve been reading several books by Emma [...]

Can you believe this nonsense? The pope and George W hanging out like old buddies, with all the pomp and ceremony around it? And listen to what they’re saying: the pope was talking about the sexual abuse scandal among catholic priests in the US, but changed to subject to say: “”What does it mean to [...]

A Seeker’s Question: Why do we continue to do things to ourselves that we KNOW are not good for us, that we know will harm us and bring no enduring benefit? A Shaman’s Answer: Because we are not yet good enough at loving ourselves.

I just came across this fascinating article called 1,000 True Fans. It is basically a manifesto on how, with web/Internet technologies, a creative person can make a sustainable living if they have just 1000 “true fans”: A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 [...]

Ok, you can make the argument that this post is in response to seeing a headline that Rush Limbaugh is ordering his cult to cross the lines and vote for Hillary in Texas. Sheesh. Clearly, there was a deal made here somewhere. Some money (or another form of concentrated energy) changed hands somewhere. And in [...]

We had a winter storm pass through. We got 12″ of snow, then it turned to freezing rain and then rain. Truly a “wintry mix.” The snow is piled about 2/3 of the way up our garage at the edge of the driveway. Our power went out for almost 24 hours. But yes, I still [...]

In case there was any doubt about whose side the RIAA is on, this article clears things up. The public perception they would like to create is that the RIAA is busy fighting for the artists, by suing those artists’ biggest fans. Mmm hmmm. But now the RIAA is arguing that the artists get paid [...]