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So it is the beginning of 2011 and normally I take some time to reflect on what happened in 2011, but this year I am looking forward rather than looking back. I also feel that the celebration of the start of a new year is slightly exaggerated because we are constantly renewed with each moment. We should have this celebration within our hearts with each moment we live. I am going to try to do that this moment and every moment that follows.

 

If I had to choose…

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"How can it be, that the world has come to this? This place
where compassion, and love, no longer exist. For even if a love burns
it should be okay to stand up each other, brush off the pain, and move
on. But everyone's more content with breaking others down as much as
they can, how can it be, that everyone's more content with killing each
other. By the time this is over, we'll have nothing left..." -Vincent Maxwell Leidig

Global Warning

A solitary wolf howls

for his slain pack. Blood red,

setting…

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A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "it is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen…

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For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -Carl Sagan

Settlement Reached on Guarding Against Burning Deaths of Sea Turtles in Gulf

The Washington Post // July 2, 2010

by Juliet Eilperin

The Coast Guard and BP reached a settlement Friday with environmental groups over the issue of how best to guard against accidentally killing endangered sea turtles during controlled burns in the Gulf of Mexico aimed at curbing the oil spill's spread.

Three environmental groups -- the Center for Biological Diversity, the…

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Hi,





News has emerged from the Gulf Coast that BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive.



That's right. BP is using "controlled burns" to contain the oil spill, and any turtles that are not removed from the area before the fire is lit are literally burned alive.



With BP already facing so much public outrage, we can step in and stop this from continuing. But we have to speak up right now. I signed a petition urging BP to stop burning endangered sea turtles… Continue

From an email I received from Avaaz:

"Dear friends,

Right now, the International Whaling Commission is meeting in Morocco for a final vote on a proposal that would legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in a generation.

The outcome rests on whose voices are heard most clearly in the final hours: the pro-whaling lobby -- or the world's people?

The outcome rests on whose voices are heard most clearly in the final hours: the…

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