While philosophers have argued long on differentiating a human brain from a human mind, I find it tiresome – and difficult without adding terms like consciousness and soul. Like a self-congratulatory exercise that has no function other than distract you from more important work – living better. I recently stumbled on both a mindfulness practice…
A recent post on Marcus Aurelius and change found another emperor / ruler talking about change – … mostly the same sentiment. Wikipedia has this to say about the book. “In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen…
After reading Mark and Delia Owens (post here) work the veterinarian fences in East Africa caught my attention and I followed up everywhere I could to find a NGO working to remove / improve fencing. Null … just nothing. Finally this last week, a great piece with good stories and details about fences’ evil and…
City of Quartz – LA After pulling together a group of admired friends and family reading a specific book – City of Quartz, by Mike Davis – and watching, listening to some current events, my response to the book has changed. At first, I expressed my angst while reading that I had hard time accepting…
Several environmental justice leaning sites recently published updates about Alaska state government’s predator culling program. For ease of discussion, Grist’s article is easily accessible, and I think is a ‘should read’ around human / nature morality and ethics. The magnitude of the killing is alarming even beyond the questionable morality of the actions themselves. While…
