Climate Change – 2 GALS 4 PEACE

Everything We Own Is Wrinkled

The world is shifting. This we believe is the biggest shift in humanity in modern times. Bigger than the industrial revolution, the invention of the indoor toilet, the refrigerator, the washer and dryer, and the TV. The current shift is that of morality and of conscience - a shift in the basic function of the human brain. It is retrogression disguised as evolution and one that is pushing humans back in time and in thinking rather than forward. It is a movement fueled by a lure to power and greed which is creating a separation from the essential human connection with others and with the earth. It is a movement that is creating a void, a robotic chill, accompanied by…

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September 10, 2023

Social Justice

Colonel Mustard with a Box

We just finished reading an article about how humans have pumped out so much groundwater that the Earth’s axis has shifted. And, this could be linked to changes in the mass of glaciers and ice sheets. Another matter is the emergence of malaria in Sarasota which is accompanied by the arrival of Giant African Snails that carry a parasite that can cause meningitis and even eat stucco. Now that is news! While politicians and Congress take on minorities, drag queens, pole dancing and book banning - the world is flooding and burning. Wildfire smoke from the eastern Canadian provinces continues to descend into the mid-west and eastern US producing the worst air quality index ever in many cities. The deadly…

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July 2, 2023

Peace / Social Justice

Honor the Earth

We saw a placard on a truck today that read “Trump/DeSantis 2024 Make America Florida.” OMG, you can only imagine our reaction! This is just as we were all ready to write about the benefits of communing with Mother Nature. Well, we are going to look away for the moment and write about nature anyway. Mother Nature is usually gentle and kind but she has been acting up lately. Extreme heat, fires, and floods. Sounds almost biblical. As some men and women seek ways to get off this earth, others look for ways to stay here and survive. Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swedish environmental activist, worries that, "As it is now, nothing is changing. The only thing that's changing is…

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August 24, 2021

Peace / Social Justice

Whitewashing Over Social Justice

A rainbow is a multi-colored, circular spectrum formed by the dispersion of light and water droplets. It is an optical illusion that is not really in a specific spot in the sky. The appearance of it depends on where you are standing and where the sun is shining. You might ask, how does this relate to our world today? The importance of this is that what we see depends on where we stand. If you live in the Bahamas, how do you see your world today? If you live in flooded North Carolina or southeast Texas, how do you see your world? If you are living in a cage at the border, how do you see your world? If you…

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September 28, 2019