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Luck comes in threes, don’t ya know?

I was thinking about the things that we say and how we make the things we say come true. Well I’ve got a lot of time on my hands lately, just humour me okay! I moved house recently and on the second night in the house [...]

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So you thought slavery ended in 1865… think again.

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

Two years ago a powerful book was published about modern-day slavery: A Crime So Monstrous. It’s a harrowing, eye-opening book. A couple of related stories caught my attention recently. One is about a black family in Mississippi that was enslaved until the 1960′s. That is not a typo; [...]

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Are your beliefs working for you?

by Paula O Sullivan

I read this quote recently and it really got me thinking about our beliefs. “The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive and begin to [...]

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A Personal Haunting

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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They’re there. You know they are. The uninvited shadows in the night that grab at you when you aren’t looking. The sounds in the night you hear when you try and shut your mind. They’re out there. They are haunting you. You. They want you….. What are they? Photo Credit: Hocus Focus Click on Flickr [...]

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An Introduction to Qigong

by Elizabeth Wescott

Quite naturally, people often ask me to describe what it is I do when doing healing work, or to describe Qigong healing. Unless I know the person well, or have a grasp of their paradigm of reality I am hard pressed to describe this incredible art. If I had a better understanding of Quantum Physics [...]

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The Pacific Commons – Greenpeace urges international support for first high seas no-take area in the Pacific

by Greenpeace

From Greenpeace Greenpeace is calling on Governments which are part of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) to support the Cook Islands plan to close off a large area of international waters to all fishing in order to restore Pacific tuna fisheries, protect biodiversity and eliminate pirate fishing. The Cook Islands proposal to [...]

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VetWow’s Short Podcasts for MST Survivors, Friends and Family

by Lily Casura

Susan Avila Smith Military Sexual Trauma, like PTSD another “invisible wound,” is unfortunately more prevalent in the military than we would want to believe, though little discussed officially. It’s different though when combatants get together who have experienced it. Among female service members in particular, it is all too often a common experience; and whether [...]

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Social Revolution – You’re the App for That!

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, doesn’t believe social media can make revolutionary change in society. I disagree. Because before the internet and now and ever, revolutionary change in society has to do with you and me. We are the app for that. iPhones use the download link to listen Music [...]

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Season your beef – and reduce greenhouse gasses?

by National Geographic

Oregano Moves Cows Toward Climate Neutral From Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic A dash of oregano does more than make pizza taste delicious: it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps, new research shows. Scientists have been trying to decrease methane from livestock for years; methane is over 20 times more potent [...]

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The Opinion of Others

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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How often do the opinions of others tug at you, pull you in one direction or another? Do you, would you, have you changed the things that are important to you, have meaning to you, because of the opinions of others? What happens to those things that matter to you when the opinions of others [...]

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