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10/28/2022

Rainforests on the island of Borneo have a crucial role to play in the battle against climate change and extinction. Indigenous peoples in communities along the Ulu Lioh and Ulu Lijan rivers and elsewhere are campaigning for their preservation. The Iban people are fighting to keep the loggers out an...

10/14/2022

"falling".

10/12/2022

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This is where you can find our new issue...lots of great articles for your reading.

10/10/2022

It will not be Columbus I will be giving thanks to….. it is and always will be my Indigenous ancestors 🤎

10/10/2022

Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation. ~Kahlil Gibran

(Book: The Garden of The Prophet https://amzn.to/3ymgtp5)

(Art: Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson)

10/09/2022

10/09/2022

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.

09/28/2022

Gas prices reaching astronomical heights across much of B.C. this week are the result of what experts describe as a "very unusual" situation, with several refineries in North America having gone offline or running into problems at the same time.

09/22/2022

/ Lao Tzu /
Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

09/22/2022

/ Philip K Dick /
"Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social themes, and featured recurrent elements such as alternate realities, simulacra, monopo…"
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Painting by Zapista OU,fineartamerica.com

09/20/2022

". . . and you'll know you're on your path when it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks of it. All that matters is you're going to the place you've always belonged."
- JmStorm

Photo by Adam Thomas

09/20/2022

“The truth is — genuine connection is ease. It is peace. When you find it, you will know. You will feel seen, you will feel like you are being mirrored back to yourself, like you are discovering the shadow of your own heart in another human being.
Slowly, through loving the right people, you will come to realize that the human beings who are meant for you in this world will not exhaust you, or hollow you out, or leave you feeling like you are hard to love.
Slowly, you will learn how to lay down your arms. How to walk away from those who will only ever love you in halves. Slowly, you will learn that you cannot love someone into loving you, or being ready, if they are not. You cannot love someone into their potential. You cannot close their hands around your heart if they are not willing to hold it themselves.
You have to let them go.
You have to focus on the people in your life who bring you back home to yourself. You have to focus on standing up for that kind of connection, on honoring that calm, because it exists. It exists.
And I hope you learn to trust that, because when you come across it, when you ultimately experience it, it feels as if you are standing at a door you finally have the keys for. You enter it with ease. There is no fumbling through your jacket pocket trying to find the right way in.
There is no desperately reaching into your bag trying to uncover the point of access. You are no longer banging your fists against the door, asking to be invited in.
You walk through. Soundlessly. Softly. Relief washes over you. You take off your shoes. You hang your coat in the closet. You put on a pot of coffee.
You’re home.
You’re home.”~

~Bianca Sparacino

art: Lauri Blank

09/18/2022

09/18/2022

Most people don't really want the truth, they just want a constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.

09/13/2022

A historian of colonial-era Louisiana, she dug deep into the archives to transform our understanding of the roots of American culture.

09/12/2022

“The object of art is not to
reproduce reality, but to create
a reality of the same intensity.”

🎨 Alberto Giacometti

“Art is unquestionably one
of the purest and highest
elements in human happiness.

It trains the mind through
the eye and the eye through
the mind.

As the sun colors flowers,
so does art color life.”

🌼 John Lubbock

09/09/2022

George Orwell’s 1984 Eerily Predicted What Our Society Would Be Like Today, 72 Years Ago
READ HERE: 👉https://bit.ly/3ARitEy

09/06/2022

This hearing was sponsored by Canadian Covid Care Alliance and moderated by Trish Wood, a former CBC journalist now with her own podcast. This is the first organized effort in Canada to bring these injustices to light.

Also, you may know of people who have been negatively impacted and wish to share their stories. If so, please have them contact the organizers in the link below since they will continue to document and update the hearing with written testimony or videos.

Please share with as many as possible.

During the course of the 3-day event, we heard from families who lost cherished loved ones, students who were faced with the excruciating decision to give up their dream of completing their education or take an injection that they wholeheartedly disagreed with, business owners who lost everything, professionals that were forced to make career-ending decisions, and experts that confirmed that the government had other options and tools at their disposal that did not get utilized during the course of this crisis.

TRAILER] A Citizens' Hearing which took place from June 22-24, 2022.
Published August 28-2022
https://rumble.com/v1hq731-trailer-a-citizens-hearing.html

A Citizens’ Hearing (FULL HEARING)
http://www.citizenshearing.ca/

The Citizens’ Hearing took place from June 22nd to 24th, 2022, in Toronto, Canada, and marked the launch of an historic documentation of Canadians negatively impacted by government response to COVID-1

09/04/2022

Spreading the news that a new Common Ground issue will be coming out soon!!!