I feel at peace with whatever death brings.

You should have seen the glee on that little face

One perfect example to illustrate how arbitrary child-rearing beliefs can be is the tale of Oran and his socks.

Looking in from the outside, having kids always seemed inherently so wasteful. The plastic diapers, plastic toys, plastic everything. But then I had a breakthrough: it didn’t have to be that way.

March 19, 2008
It’s five years since the start of the Iraq War.
While we’ve been sitting on the couch watching the 4th, 5th, 6th season of American Idol, 160,000 American sons and daughters are on the ground in a foreign desert, for their 4th, 5th, 6th tour of duty, not knowing exactly what they’re doing there.
Michael [...]

“Do you know in every other country, the disabled are number one citizens?”

… She spoke of her country as a mother would speak of her most cherished, yet most troubled child.

… you will come to find that at your very core… LOVE is the stuff you are actually made of.

No joke, it looked as if someone colored the sky with Crayola brilliant blue.

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness with which we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
In a conversation I had last night at a Sustainable Business Network gathering, I asked Peter Crownfield about a recent local sustainable food event. He said it was delicious, more than 180 people attended [...]