“A Drone Flew Over a Pig Farm,” from Upworthy. http://www.upworthy.com/a-drone-flew-over-a-pig-farm-to-discover-its-not-really-a-farm-its-something-much-more-disturbing?g=3&c=huf1. “Whole Food’s Free Range Chickens Have Come Home to Roost,” American Council of Science and Health. Please don’t skip over the comments on this one! And just in case you haven’t heard, Amazon bought Whole Food’s and declared that there was no reason why the …
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Poetry, Books, Reviews, Videos, Articles
If you are unfamiliar with the term “beatnik,” you are in the spring of life, so to speak. The term refers to a movement of artist, poets, writers and musicians in the early 50’s and the 60’s. They were to those years what hippies were to the 60’s and 70’s, except they believed in the …
Working, Earning and Suffering: It is What It is
The call for a New Narrative that heals the separation between who we are and how we are living on Earth is sounding louder. The profound suffering that has and continues to characterize our earthly sojourn, among human and nonhuman families and communities alike, can no longer be ignored. The degeneration of the biosphere and …
June 2017 – “An Invitation to a New Narrative,” by Akilah t’Zuberi; Laurie Thompson, editor
Northeast and South Philadelphia have several 70’s style diners. Many of them are open 24 hours. At times, when I found myself writing or creating a piece into the wee hours of the night, and if I hadn’t cooked and didn’t have anything I could prepare quickly, I would grab my reader or my notebook, …
The Creation of the New & the Transformation of the Belief in Working Hard and Earning a Living
Figure 2 (above). Subway scene, Philadelphia, Pa. Notice that most people are on their cell phones. Over the next 2-3 months, I will be designing and creating an expanded blog that integrates the ideas from the Transforming the American Workplace blog, the Innerworld Press Shift in Consciousness Ezine, and a blog that I haven’t had …