The Cost of Luxury & The Need for Fair Trade
Many of the prisoner-laborers who work Sierra Leone’s open-pit mines end up in shallow graves, executed for suspected theft, for lack of production, or simply for sport. (© Jean-Claude Coutausse/ CONTACT Press Images – text from Amnesty International) Child slavery exists to fuel the luxury markets of diamonds and chocolate. When you think of diamonds, do you think of children who slave to mine, cut and polish them? When you eat... Read More
Staying with After The Brink
Three of Wands – Dali Deck When the Three of Wands is in this position it indicates the brink of success whether it has to do with business, spiritual life or the unfolding of personal life goals. You have made an effort over time to say “yes” to life and now life is saying “yes” back. This is a rare and magical opening – a time when you can truly catch the wave. There is a potential to be the person you’ve... Read More
Dissolve & Wait
Reflect & Learn I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mahatma Gandhi In order to put your life back together, you need to let it fall apart, sometimes completely, so you can see the total mess and decide how to put it back together. The glue that keeps it all together in the here and now is usually worse than the... Read More
Earth Day 2006
The Breath of Gaia – Josephine Wall To partake of a higher ideal often requires sacrificing the lesser option. The path of pleasure eventually leads to distraction from spiritual growth. The gratification of the personality eventually gives way to a call from spirit as the soul matures. The Tarot Earth Day 2006 – Today, organizations all over the world are coming together to educate and inform how we all can make a significant difference... Read More
CC Treadway – Healer & Artist
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein I have been working with an exceptional woman for many months now. Her name – CC Treadway, Healer & Artist. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More
Time to Rise
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other. Millard Fuller Washington used to be a place where you went to make change. Now it’s where change dies, stomped out or atrophied. Of the people, for the people, by the people? Human beings have become an expendable commodity to the rampant capitalism the keeps more and more people wage slaves. Credit card companies have created... Read More
Love, Ethics & Change – The Same Tree, Different Branches
Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More
