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Happy autumnal equinox!

Happy International Day Of Peace!

I think they go really well together. Gratitude for the abundance of the year, a point of astronomical balance, and hope for abundance and safety as we move into the dark half of the year seems like an excellent moment to ask Who will you make peace with today? Seems to me that if we all ( Read more... )

Check out the documentary Aluna, about the isolated Columbian tribe theKogi, who wish us to know that our superficial understanding of the world is leading us to deeply damage the Earth and all life:

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Lissa Rankin's latest TEDTalk covers ground familiar to anyone who saw her previous talk. This time, she's talking to health care providers about the urgent need to take an holistic approach and to revolutionise the health care system. She's more specific about what stress is, and about the need to reject stress as "normal":

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Lemony Snickett was asked to provide a NaNoWriMo pep talk. Here  it is, in its full glory - and the great thing is that it applies to anything you love:

Dear Cohort,

Struggling with your novel? Paralyzed by the fear that it’s nowhere near good enough? Feeling caught in a trap of your own devising? You should probably give up.

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Let this interview with a marine conservationist from the European organisation The Black Fish first terrify you at the scale of the destruction of marine life (we may be facing fish-free oceans in a generation if we only continue to consume at the current rate), the lack of interest in saving our species' life-support system, and the fact that ( Read more... )

• Meditation (brief, long, guided visualisation, breath - any and all work extremely well for me)
• Creativity (crocheting, drawing, writing, etc.)
• Being out in the garden or park or along the canal
• Reading email and surfing the web in small, restricted bites
• Music, laughter, silliness

Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch
By Melissa HogenboomScience reporter, BBC News

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Burka Avenger: Pakistan's cartoon superhero battling for girls' education

The first animated TV series produced in Pakistan offers a positive role model to counter Taliban opposition to girls'

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Link to video: Burka Avenger: the Pakistani cartoon challenging the Taliban on girls' education
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Name: Burka Avenger.

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Meanwhile, last week in Scotland... the world's oldest lunar calendar was discovered. I'm only linking to it because it appears that nowadays online news media have formatted their content so as to render it impossible for people with my low level of computer savvy to copy to places like LJ without insane amounts of white space and LJ-cuts not ( Read more... )