At the World Peace Conference (see www.worldpeaceconference.org) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week (May 16 and 17), “Building a Culture of Peace,” 500 peace leaders from around the world will dig into this topic using Open Space Technology. Suzanne Maxwell is putting together the facilitation process and team for five concurrent peace councils at…
My friend Sonja Brodt, from my Bioregional Artist in Residence days (sponsored by University of California at Davis) is working her magic again. I recall being transfixed by her Water Dance as I prepared for my own Water Ceremonies in Lake County. Her passion, grace, and skill transported us all. Now, appropriately, on Mother’s Day,…
Today I’m part of an invited poetry reading for the Land Trust in Lake County up here in Northern California. We’ll read at Rodman Slough. One of the poems I’ll read will be one of my favorites, and one I consider to be my father’s most powerful. Here are my father’s comments on his poem–It…
If you came of age, as I did, during the 1970s when the Feminist Movement began to strongly define itself (the Second Wave), you’ll remember the slogan, widely attributed to Irina Dunn, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I even remember the silkscreens T-shirts this slogan was emblazoned on, though…
KAHULUI, MAUI , HAWAI’I – In collaboration and partnership with the Maui community, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, will have the entire world as his audience as part of a realtime webcast of his public appearances on the island of Maui on April 24 and 25, 2007.
What is Earth Day and how did it start? Wikipedia tells us: Earth Day proved extremely popular in the United States and around the world. The first Earth Day, in 1970, had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United…
Improvisational cooking is my specialty. I just look at what is in the refrigerator and the pantry and go from there. My mother gave me this free-wheeling attitude towards cooking and most times it works. Here’s one that did. Date-Nut Cake Use any yellow cake mix (But, Betty Crocker will put you in the mood…
As part of reading the river, Pop told me two dryly humorous folk stories from the 1932 US Soil Conservation Program.–JGR ______________________ “The brown color of the Mississippi is tied-in to an issue of land conservation, too. As more and more of the land is cleared for housing and farming, more soil is eroded away…
Diane Thompson, attorney for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., also did an interview with Steve Tripoli of NPR’s “Marketplace” on the subprime lending issue/predatory lending (listen here). They also used a snipet of it to promote the show. We’re all really proud of her. Pop and I sat in the kitchen and listened…
The Wall Street Journal online also quoted Diane Thompson Regulators Scrutinized In Mortgage Meltdown By Greg Ip and Damiam Paletta ….”It is extremely rare, for individual matters, to get relief from either the state or the federal regulators,” says Diane Thompson, her attorney. A Wachovia spokeswoman declined to comment on the settlement but noted the…