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Dear friends ~ a thoughtful poem to read and consider as we traverse this time of disruption together.

WHAT IF



What if… the virus is here to help us?

What if we subscribe to the philosophy that life is always working out for us?

That there is an intelligence far greater than humans at work. That all is interconnected.

To reset. To remember. What is truly important.

Reconnecting with family and community.

Reducing…

I think we should also start a global trend that says 'Thank You' to all the people who are enabling us to stay at home. The food producers, the warehouse workers, the van drivers, the supermarket staff. the Pharmacy staff, the hospital staff, the social welfare staff, the many many many unseen people working behind the scenes still keeping things ticking over so the majority of people can stay at home. And also be aware of the people who are at home with no income or financial support…

Today is …

by Josh Wyndham-Kidd

Existing on the internet in Australia right now is beyond imagining. I'm going to try to describe it for my overseas friends, who are seeing the horrors but…

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Imagine this: thousands of people joining together to form a human peace sign.

It happened in Central Park's East Meadow Tuesday afternoon, all in tribute to John Lennon.

The crowd included everyone from aging hippies to schoolchildren not yet born when Lennon died:

They gathered to…

Illustration by Ken Crane

A group of devils were trying to enter the soul of a holy man who lived near Cairo; they had already tempted him with Nubian women, Egyptian food, Libyan treasure,…

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.

As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.

The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman…

Sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn

¨Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. ¨…

Art by Victor Nizovtsev

The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to…

Art ~ Catrin Welz-Stein

"Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled.

Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp.. we lose.

Allow your life to unfold naturally.

Know that it too is a vessel of perfection.

Just as you breathe…

"What if our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy ...water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was the center of our being."

~ Ganga…

This is a memorial to the truth that real facts matter:

Over a third of Americans now don’t believe that over 6 million Jews were killled in the Holocaust, but on 2 July 1942, 82 children from Lidice -- a small village in Czechoslovakia -- were transferred to the Łódź Gestapo office. Those 82 boys and girls were then transported to an extermination…

* Extreme Palestinians think that I lost my mind and became a normaliser !!!

* Extreme Israeli leftist think that I am on the wrong way and suck up to Zionists 

* Extreme Israeli right wingers think that I am full of hate, that I am against Israel, and that I am only

pretending when talking about peace…

I had a dream tonight.

Me and Arnie himself were out in the jungle hunting for the predator. We lit a fire to attract it out of its hiding.  We ran and hid a distance away were we could watch it move towards the fire.

After some few seconds, Arnold shouted to me as he took off, “run for your life its coming this way”

I happened to have a cloak which makes  me invisible. I pulled it to cover my self. Poor Arnie didn't know that i had my secret weapon so he had to depend…

MAY DAY

a dance, a swirl
a smile, a laugh
around the pole
in colorful steps

A man always walked past a prostitute that held a placard saying 20,000 shillings for a night on his way back home after work.

One day he decided to say some thing.

“20,000 shillings only? you peddle your body for only that? get a man and get married, you cheap slut” he said and moved on. The prostitute stayed…

Lucy: Why do you think we're put here on earth Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: To make others happy.

Lucy: I don't think I'm making anyone very happy. Of course nobody's making ME very happy either. SOMEBODY'S NOT DOING HIS JOB!

Lucy's doing her job! (courtesy Schulz treasury)

Charlie Brown: What can…

STAND BY ME

When the night has come

And the land is dark

And the moon is the only light we see

No I won't be afraid

No I won't be afraid

Just as long as you stand, stand by…

Song: Kat Frankie-People. Photography: Los Intocables, or The Untouchables, is a shock photography project created by the Cuban photographer and artist Erik Ravelo, to raise awareness of child protection, and about the various attacks against children through the world: sexual abuse, shootings in American…

We Refugees A poem by Benjamine Zephaniah

I come from a musical place

Where they shoot me for my song

And my brother has been tortured

By my brother in my land.

I come from a beautiful place

Where they hate my shade of skin

They don’t like the way I pray

And they ban free poetry.

I…