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Maria Montessori: The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship

by Rene Wadlow

2016-08-31

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) an Italian childhood educator and world citizen, whose birth anniversary we mark on 31 August, would have been pleased at the efforts of the United Nations and UNESCO to promote Global Citizenship Education. (1) Montessori argued for a child's dignity and autonomy and for the ability of the child to break out of the narrow bonds of…

Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

by Rene Wadlow

2015-08-31

31 August is the birth anniversary of Maria Montessori, an Italian childhood educator and world citizen. Her approaches to early childhood education are used both in Montessori schools and also more widely in other schools and home schooling.…

Russian chocolate

by Valerie Sartor

2016-08-27

Russian chocolate has become a minor addiction for me. I eat chocolate every day, sometimes several times a day. At home in the US I avoid sweets. The reason I eat chocolate here as opposed to at home in the US has to do with packaging.

 

Since Soviet…

Here are Stations

by David Sparenberg

2016-08-25

Here are Stations

 

Here are not stations of the cross.  Here is not a pilgrimage to Mecca, or prayer before the Western Wall.

Here are the stations of my soul.  A kiss of breeze; a clasp of thunder.  Sometimes a…

I DO, I DON'T, I AM, I AM NOT

by David Sparenberg

2016-08-18

I DO, I DON’T, I AM, I AM NOT



I do not embrace austerity (self-chosen austerity) merely for the sake of austerity.  I do not advocate inconvenience because inconvenience is a virtue in itself.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_ds1xQmD4

   ..         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axARKd24eHo

Galactic traveller…

Imaginal Spheres*

by David Sparenberg

2016-07-19

That which you love continues with you: patterns and the calligraphies of love continue from life to life.  From this process comes the shaping of your Heaven, the creating out of correspondence of an imaginal sphere.…

Knee Jerk and Mosquito Bitten Reactions

by Leah Sellers

2016-07-20

Smack !!

 

“Gol’durned little Blood Sucker.  I’ll get that Skeeter yet,”  Sam said as he scratched at the fresh Mosquito bite on his right forearm.

 

“Hee-hee, they’re bad this year, alright.  We went from drought…

Which coup has lost in Turkey?

by Thanos Kalamidas

2016-07-17

I don’t think democracy ever faced such an irony as a few days ago in Turkey. A man who rules violating basic democratic rules and constantly discriminates freedom of speech was saved from a military coup that tried to overthrow him by the reaction of the people and the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebs-FZVmaeE

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your soul."

Amna's Girls

by David Sparenberg

2016-07-11

With the permission of David…

     Troubled?   

then stay with me

for i am not.

      Lonely?    

a thousand naked

amorous ones dwell

in the caves beneath my eyelids. 

       Riches?

   here is a pick,    

my whole body is an emerald

that begs 'Take me.'

Write all that worries you on a piece of parchment;

offer it to God.

Even from the distance of a…

I publish a exquisite text by David Sparenberg, who is also a member of Peace for the Soul.

Through all of suffering (and life is long and often hard), the brave stand strong. Before the beauty that soars beyond the limitations of time and circumstances, tears are copious and exceed control.



One hears a song, sees a smile,…

I have come into this world to see this:   

the sword drop from men's  hands even at the height of their arc of anger  

because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound

and it is His - the Christ's, our Beloved's.

I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as we pass thru' this miraculous

existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul,

a being of ecstatic…

"Like most women, my youth was dedicated to raising a family. While music was always my solace, I was unable to make it a priority. Life has dealt me with many blows, each worse than the other. When my husband passed away, my beloved daughter encouraged me to pursue my passion. But soon, I lost her too. To get over the grief, I started to pursue music more…

Dire Straits were an English rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsey and Pick Withers. This amazing song Iron Hand was released on the album On every street in 1991. It relates to the Battle of Orgreave during the UK miners' strike.

Lyrics:



with all the clarity of dream

the sky…

During a drought, a woman in Wyoming filled her mouth with water and lay down quietly. A hummingbird is drinking from her gift.

"The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in."