"I was beginning to discover the difference between women and other women," she writes, "and it wasn't measured by filling in their weights or their shoe sizes on a piece of paper or knowing what color of house they were washing their dirty dishes in or whether they hung their clothes to dry on a fence line in the backyard or shoved them in a dryer in a back room. A woman's difference was if she listened to herself at all."
A woman warrior fights ....
In the tiny town of Seadrift, Texas, one woman -- a longtime shrimper most often seen in the white rubber boots of her trade -- sensed a change. And it wasn't good.
While perched inside the fish house she managed on the dock next to Lavaca Bay, Diane Wilson read a newspaper article that altered the course of her life: A study released by the Environmental Protection Agency had just declared her county one of the most polluted in the nation.
It wasn't long before the bay where her family had dragged their nets for decades was offering up dead shrimp and dolphin carcasses.
To a Texas woman with a knack for untangling fishermen's nylon nets and chasing after five young children of her own, signs that something is wrong don't get much more obvious than that.... More >
"WIE: What do you believe is the solution to this crisis?
Swimme: It would be to reinvent ourselves, at the species level, in a way that enables us to live with mutually enhancing relationships. Mutually enhancing relationships—not just with humans but with all beings—so that our activities actually enhance the world." ... [link]
here are some of his videos on youtube .. [link] ... crikey - I can't tell you how wonderful they are !
( the visuals are pretty incredible too ! )
"To respond to the conditions of life is one of the fundamental capacities of the universe, Swimme tells us. To be human means we have a deep capacity to care and act responsibly about the future. As the dynamics of life on the planet change, from the genetically determined to the cultural, our decisions have the power to alter life on the planet. The most responsible decision we can make will be one that maintains the conditions of life and makes the earth blossom for millions of more years. With Cosmologist Brian Swimme." (For more information, visit www.global-mindshift.org)
Here's a fairly interesting book .. Blessed Unrest [link]
20 May 2010 @ 09:51
"What reads like occult fiction actually happened. Enoch and the Book of Coincidences is the first in a series of stunning first-person chronicles of an incredible two-decade-long, real-life adventure that may well prove the existence of God Himself and reunite two great faiths...and which continues to unfold to this very day!" ... [link]
A BRIEF TREATISE ON COINCIDENCE The frequency with which people experience coincidences—in particular, meaningful and/or astounding coincidences—varies considerably from person to person, but it seems that we all experience striking coincidence at least occasionally.... [link]More >
20 May 2010 @ 09:21
WHAT has Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon got in common with worms and the US power grid?
All have been linked by a mathematical explanation of the so-called small-world effect, in which apparently unrelated people turn out to have friends in common. This effect could also help our understanding of a wide range of problems, from the way disease spreads to brain seizures.
It turns out that the effect turns up in any type of network, from the film industry to the nervous system of living organisms. All that's needed is for a tiny proportion of the connections to link up with distant parts of the network... .... [link]
"In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their mysterious workings." [link]More >
A difficult journey that begins in loneliness and shame for thousands of Ethiopian women ends in a productive new life and hope for the future in this award-winning film....
13 May 2010 @ 04:30
"When the forms of the world rattle, people have a tendency to grab
something that seems solid or right and hold tightly to it.
A single idea, a fixed principle, a unifying theory, or a blind belief becomes
preferable to the growing tension of opposing forces and conflicting opinions.
The tendency to simplify the complexities of life and insist upon an absolute
way of seeing things becomes stronger.
The true disease of the age is the rise of literalism and the corresponding
loss of genuine imagination, for literalism reduces the world to fixed ideas and rigid dogmas while isolating people at the extremes of thought and belief." ... [link]
"In order for things in this world to change, people might have to listen to little things, learn to hear again the language of nature and learn to trust the little voice that speaks from within."
Dr. James Hillman Live at Mythic Journeys Part 1 ... [link]
"As storyteller Idries Shah says, wisdom, like water, is everywhere. Yet, form is everything. You can put a sponge on a pile of ice—but no exchange takes place. If you take care to melt the ice, the substance is taken up right into the very capillaries of the interior. This is what stories do." ... [link]
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.... [link]
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
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