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I cannot comprehend the deaths of 100,000 people due to the coronavirus in the United States. Just as I could never comprehend the deaths of millions of people from previous pandemics, natural disasters and wars. But a count reveals only … Continue reading
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What is your vision for the future?
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have upended our lives. Change is being forced upon us. Which makes this an incredible opportunity to build better lives and communities. This requires us to have a vision of what we want to … Continue reading
International Solidarity Actions. NO PIPELINES! CALL TO ACTION!
Although several of us were able to attend the vigil in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en last month, we decided not to get together today in support of the International Solidarity Actions as a precaution related to the spread of coronavirus. … Continue reading
Fire and Light
Love of and care for Mother Earth has been the focus of my entire adult life (50 years). For those who don’t know me, one of the main ways I was led to this focus came from a vision of … Continue reading
Apache Stronghold
The sacred ancestral lands of Oak Flat in Arizona have rich deposits of copper. Legislation buried in the National Defense Authorization Act in 2015 allows Resolution Copper to begin mining that copper in 2020. In the video below Former Chairman … Continue reading
Spiritual Warriors and Truthsgiving
Warrior 1. One who is engaged in or experienced in battle.2. One who is engaged aggressively or energetically in an activity, cause, or conflicthttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/warrior Warrior seems an unlikely term for Quakers to use, since the word is usually thought of in terms of battles and wars, which Quakers oppose and work against. I like the second definition above though, related … Continue reading
Protest, Protection, Spirit and Whiteness
From my teenage years I’ve been a student and tried to be a practitioner of the principles of nonviolence and civil disobedience. In the Quaker atmosphere of Scattergood Friends School I struggled with the decision every 18 year old male … Continue reading
This is about taking your power back, and figuring out how we do it together
One of my favorite songwriters, performers and spiritual warriors is Nahko Bear of Nahko and Medicine for the people. He just released the song “Lifeguard” and tells the story of this song below. He also speaks of how we can … Continue reading
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Spiritual Warriors
I just finished a series of blog posts about James Allen’s essay, “Pontoon Archipelago or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Collapse”. I spent so much effort doing that because I found the essay to be the most … Continue reading
And those who know and those who seek. Amidst the chaos, find your peace
I am so discouraged by the vicious and escalating racism of the president, and the enablers of his party who refuse to refute it. In a recent blog post the characteristics of fascism are articulated. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/we-refuse-to-sit-idly-by/ Surely we won’t be … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 