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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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In science as with gardening, the principle that there's always greater, more vigorous growth at the edges of the zone than the centre seems to hold true. What also seems to hold true for both is that what grows there isn't always expected, and can cause great confusion and discomfort.

The Permaculture Association says:

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Nuclear weapons: an accident waiting to happen

In July 1956, a plane crashed in Suffolk, nearly detonating an atomic bomb. In January 1987, an RAF truck carrying hydrogen bombs skidded off a road in Wiltshire. Other near-misses remain top secret. Who is really at risk from Britain's nuclear weapons?

• Eric Schlosser

• The Guardian,
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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.

For one thing, writing ( Read more... )

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

Just read something that horrifies me:

Albert Speer, who was tried at Nuremberg for his senior role in the Nazi administration, including using forced labour in his armaments factories, got 20 years in Spandau prison.

Bradley Manning, who refused to cover up the illegal abuse and torture of civilians, just got 35 years and a dishonourable ( Read more... )