Satyagraha

A thousand thanks to blog friend Susannah Azzaro for sending me this video. She has shared it on her beautiful blog today, also. In view of the shameful, violent crack-downs on peaceful citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, and which are going largely unreported, at this pivotal moment of transformation, I offer this.  It is … Read more

Empowering the Shift

Today’s inspirational offering is in support of the Occupiers, the regime-changers in Wisconsin, in Egypt, in Syria, Greece, and all heart-centered, ordinary people who find themselves standing up for peace, justice and freedom. The real global uprising will not be televised. It will be telepathic. What we see in our world is a mirror of … Read more

Occupy Poetry

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry (1934 – ) Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. … Read more

On Eleven-Eleven-Eleven

How better to honor our war Veterans than to resolve to end the millennia of wars and violence? Here is another powerful, beautiful post from Riyana, who is at Occupy Oakland.  (Remember the Occupy movement? Despite mainstream media having mostly moved on to other things (as we knew they would!), Occupy is still growing and … Read more

The Brilliant Jen Louden Explains Why It Matters

As you know, on the weekends, I usually share art, poetry, or views from other visionaries. Today’s post is certainly that, and more. You see, Jen Louden is one of my real SHE-roes. She wrote The Woman’s Comfort Book back in 1992, which at times was my own hanging-on-by-my-fingernails survival manual through much of that … Read more