Archives for April, 2007
A woman on a list I hang out on asked how to teach her child about abundance while still teaching her to conserve water, for example. The bigger question is, I think, “How do I believe in abundance when there really isn’t enough?!” We’re using up finite reserves of oil from the earth. Clean water [...]
The Green Zone in Baghdad isn’t as cozy today, after someone set off a bomb in the convention center, where Iraqi legislators were having lunch. In fact, this isn’t just in the Green Zone. It’s deep in the green zone, according to the article, past six checkpoints including one with “a sophisticated full-body scanning device” [...]
Now, Americans have a new option for a healthy snack. Diet Coke has introduced Diet Coke Plus, the first “enriched” carbonated beverage ever offered by the world’s most famous brand. Of course, you need calories to live, so consumers must be careful not to attempt to live on Diet Coke alone. “However,” says Becky Phlemming, [...]
Have I mentioned the connection between food and love? I’m in love with the Oregon wild rice I found at the Saturday Market this week here in Eugene. Here’s a news story about how it grows here. My brown rice has been coming from at least California. This stuff is yummy, and local, and it [...]
We might be running out of oil. Would that be such a bad thing? Well, I guess if we switched to coal, it would. Or planted corn all over the country to fuel our cars. But it seems to me that running out of oil is much less scary than what seems to be happening [...]
Close your eyes for a moment (except don’t, because then you couldn’t read) and imagine your very center. Imagine it’s a tiny dot. Even an infinitely small dot. Smaller than an atom. And then imagine yourself, that dot, that spark, is going to try out life on earth. You’ve chosen to live a human life [...]
In February, I discovered the Group of 1000 (which is connected with the Conversations With God Foundation), and joined. Then I learned that there would be a conference, about a week away, in Ashland, Oregon, only a three hour drive. It was a free conference, and most retreats with Neale cost hundreds or thousands of [...]
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