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Part one: What are we looking forward to”

I look forward to the world breaking up “into small colonies of the saved” (Robert Bly).  I look forward to a simpler, less neurotic life for me and my children.  I would like to think that my children, while their chances of survival may be lower, their chances of happiness will be higher.

The central change I would like to see is abandonment of the addictive, frenzied, exploitative American way of life in favor of a tribal, cooperative, relaxed way of life that puts responsibility toward other species and the Earth, as well as other human beings, first.

The main outcome I look forward to is the resurgence of a pristine, detoxified ecology worldwide, into which we blend human culture seamlessly, losing nothing already learned, and finding a new, huge, informing mutual Love, leading to the next golden age.

Learning how to live with each other and within the larger community of our bioregions and ecosystems in a way that is intimate, honest, humble, and humanly and ecologically sustainable.  That includes restoring viable community life, economic and ecological relationships and systems – living systems.

I have personally experienced a watsu session, and I can vouch for the incredible physical and emotional benefits. I can honestly say it was the most relaxing bodywork I ever experienced. Most incredibly, it brought me back to sensations of total safety and freedom. One of the most healing experiences of my life.
JGrace

This video is dedicated to the best employee at Sea World, Orlando. The music is “No One is Alone from Into the Woods” (Instrumental) by John Williams; The Boston Pops Orchestra.

Delightful and inspiringInterview with Scott Taylor about Dolphins

… and Dolphin Therapy: How the Dolphins can help heal us and how we can honor them.

You don’t need to be brilliant to be wise.  

 Barry Schwartz on our real crisis.  (We stopped being wise.)

Celebrate moral exemplars. People are inspired by moral heroes.

by Frances Moore Lappe

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3330

A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.

    “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.”  CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL

In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does a democracy look like that enables citizens to have a real voice in securing life’s essentials? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible or a pipe dream? With hunger on the rise here in the United States—one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps—these questions take on new urgency.

To begin to conceive of the possibility of a culture of empowered citizens making democracy work for them, real-life stories help—not models to adopt wholesale, but examples that capture key lessons. For me, the story of Brazil’s fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a rich trove of such lessons. Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry. Then in 1993, a newly elected administration declared food a right of citizenship. The officials said, in effect: If you are too poor to buy food in the market—you are no less a citizen. I am still accountable to you.

More than 10 years ago, Brazil’s fourth-largest city, Belo Horizonte, declared that food was a right of citizenship and started working to make good food available to all. One of its programs puts local farm produce into school meals. This and other projects cost the city less than 2 percent of its budget. Above, fresh passion fruit juice and salad as part of a school lunch.

That’s Jorge

Humility
is when someone older
can bend their knees easier than you
and washes your floors with love;

is when he then says,
“You always care for me.”
But he brings presents for my parents
without ever having met them.

and he says, “Put a card inside,
in English, and say, ‘From Jorge.
Although I don’t know you,
I know you through your daughter.”

“I hope your father will like the little sculpture,
although they are dead people,
playing piano and the corpse singing.”

And the nativity scene.
“Is your mother Catholic?” he asked.
No, but she thinks of God on Christmas,”
I said, hoping it was true.
“So this nativity scene, she’ll like it.”

And inside was a Joseph and a Mary, and a little baby.
And behind, with the smallest of wings,
in the background.
A little angel.
That’s Jorge.

by JGrace

From the film, The Legend Of 1900

Hugs for a Loving World

Yes, most people are capable of opening their hearts.

The survival for the race depends upon the community of sovereigns. The world has fallen from the grace of peace. Not from natural disaster was the fall from peace. The change was brought upon the world by the power of humans who acted as if they were greater Gods, but they are not.

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