Archive | March 2014
The Power of Story
~Another Gem~
Image by Kathy Fornal
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
~ Philip Pullman
The past few days have been rough for me. It’s a lyme thing. Partly because of the pathogens that have invaded and taken up residence in my body and partly because of the ongoing treatment to evict them.
I’ve been in excruciating pain. Pain that sets my face into hard lines during the day. Pain that has me whimpering, crying and howling in agony each night. The pain has been slowly escalating over the past few weeks, and now, at its crescendo, my bedroom is no longer a refuge. Nights no longer bracket my days with healing sleep. Instead I descend the stairs into a fiery hell.
I keep everyone awake; my husband, the dogs… even when they sleep in the guest room. My muffled sobs and screams are…
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Ah, I LOVE THE SOUND OF THIS.
Great song writing. And…if I didn’t know any better I’d think this was LIVE instrumentation?
Nah….
Anyway, still sounds amazing!
9th Wonder: The Harvard Hip Hop Fellow
Incredible, that is all. 🙂
It REALLY is EVERYTHING.
One of my besties sent me this in an email last night…
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~Charles R. Swindoll
Men Should Know…
Say No To Palm Oil!
About the Orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra, the deforestation process etc., Palm Oil production here is harmful on several counts. So let’s remain alert about the products we are using, if from this region of the world there are many harms taking place. Thanks for your attention…
This post was shared via Facebook by an Organisation called News Hound, please spread the word so that we can help save the Orangutans.
SAY NO TO PALM OIL!
Did you know that most of us are fuelling one of the world’s biggest ecological disasters and acts of primate genocide in history?
Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan. These two South-East Asian islands are extremely rich in life, containing around 20,000 flowering plant species, 3,000 tree species, 300,000 animal species and thousands more being discovered each year.
Despite this amazing biodiversity and delicate web of species, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of one vegetable oil. That’s 6 football fields…
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Rethinking Failure
Indian-American woman anchor talks about her journey there. This was incredibly inspiring, and made me cry. And, she quite possibly changed a big part of my life right now, too.
This is courage, embodied.
Wonderful Ted Talk!
Call a public inquiry into hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women like my cousin Loretta Saunders
International Women’s Day is March 8. Here is one way to contribute to a woman’s life span. Please read the article, and sign the Change.org petition to help. This is an issue that can definitely use the help of those who care about women around the world. Other than that, I hope your International Women’s Day has been one of empowerment and gratitude. If we are safe and sound, that is one blessing. Yes? Thanks for your eye on this…
- Petitioning Hon. Kellie Leitch, Minister for the Status of Women
- Responded
This petition will be delivered to:
Hon. Kellie Leitch, Minister for the Status of Women
Minister of Aboriginal Affairs
Hon. Bernard Valcourt
Liberal Critic, Aboriginal Affairs
Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Member of Parliament, St. Paul’s
Call a public inquiry into hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women like my cousin Loretta Saunders
- Petition byHolly Jarrett
Cornwall, Canada
- Petition byHolly Jarrett
Last month, my cousin Loretta Saunders was murdered at age 26. She was a student at St. Mary’s University in Halifax and was writing her honours thesis on the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.
Our family is Inuit, and Loretta has now become one of the over 800 missing or murdered Aboriginal women she was fighting for. It is time for our government to…
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“Black Trans Bodies Are Under Attack”: Freed Activist CeCe McDonald, Actress Laverne Cox Speak Out
“Black Trans Bodies Are Under Attack”: Freed Activist CeCe McDonald, Actress Laverne Cox Speak Out
This is an informative update about the discrimination and recent hate crime cases against black transgender women around the country. This trend of violence against transgender women of color is an epidemic, but currently experiencing a deeply insensitive and dismissive response from law enforcers here and around the country. Take a moment to listen to these women on the topic, our eyes and ears are needed. Our voices too, in solidarity, when these injustices occur.
Archaic Sugar 
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