Not for the usual parental complaints - "my kids are so whiney, my children are so demanding" - no. Agony is watching your children get older. Agony is a Sunday night when you know that when they open their little eyes in the morning, you'll be on your way to work.
If Men are in crisis, what does that mean for Fathers? It means today’s Fathers are working harder than ever to meet their family’s needs and to hopefully equip their kids with the skills and perspectives necessary in the coming era.
Sky thunderous, dark; the river raging black
Trembling land under foot, starting to crack
Rolling ominous clouds, lightening clap
Will the day’s sun ever come back
How long will tumultuous conditions last
Human patience for change is waning fast
Resources to survival limited by contrast
Political will to remedy scarce, but much bombast
On Black Friday/ Buy Nothing Day – we enjoyed our annual turn on national television, cutting into the heavy-breathing shopping reports with our alternative Christmas. A comment like “But if we stopped shopping – what about jobs?
Julien Drolon’s life has taken him many places, from being an International Reporter to what is now his passion – music and peace. Born in France in 1982, Julien released the first track, “Peace Through Music” on August 21st. His upcoming album, “Time For Peace,” has an anticipated drop date of March 2011.
I've seen the inside of an industry of garbage; spent the last week and a half arranging their marketing portfolio for next year's product line-up. An industry that manufactures something which will be thrown away in a month after purchase. As an industry, it employs thousands of people across the world. Therefore, many people's livelihoods are fastened to the creation of landfills.
A recent discussion about technology on SpaceCamp's blog sparked something I considered a while ago and I figured I would share it with my Evolver peeps...
I was 13 years old when Y2K rolled around. I had my stash of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). We lit off fireworks, got drunk, and smoked cheap cigars. I wasn't worried per se, but there was that excitement of not really knowing what the future would bring, and the recognition that the future was right at hand.
Seashells and kelp wash up on the shore at 5am.
The dead bodies of the children of the sea discarded as gifts by the morning tide.
Children carry home the treasures of summer and salty air and timeless joy,
sheltered from the truth of time and death by the dwindling light of innocence.
Standing on the sand watching the sun go down in molten fire on the liquid horizon,
I wrote the following piece at the end of the spring semester of 2009. I was going through kind of a nervous breakdown as I was coming to terms with what school had made me into, what career path I wanted to take, and the place where these things intersected.
For years I've been thinking what about the more and more children in the world getting all this legal dope because they have what is socalled Attention Deficit Disorder.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
