Author: Daniela

  • Monday Prayer

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    The Guest is inside you, and also inside me; you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. The blue sky opens further and further, the daily sense of failure goes away, the damage I have done…

  • Memorial Day – Let’s remember to honor those who speak up for peace

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  • Up to 2 million in the U.S. and in over 50 countries march against Monsanto

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    Up to  two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it.  Founder and organizer Tami Canal said protests were held…

  • Skyscrappers

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    Originally posted on Viewfound: For more of   Biswajit Dihidar’s beautiful photography visit viewfound.wordpress.com. Viewfound View original post

  • Where The Atheists Are

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Mapped: The highest reported share of self-described atheists is in China: an astounding 47 percent. Faith has a complicated history in China. The state is deeply skeptical of organized religion, which it has long considered a threat to its authority. In the Taiping rebellion of the 19th century, a religious…

  • Sunday Prayer

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  • Bukowski On Being Censored

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    Originally posted on The Dish: In 1985, the Public Library of Nijmegen, Netherlands pulled from its shelves Charles Bukowski’s Tales of Ordinary Madness, calling the book “very sadistic, occasionally fascist and discriminatory against certain groups (including homosexuals).” Bukowski reacted in a letter to journalist Hans van den Broek: If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals…

  • Food Imports on the Rise

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    Marianela Fader from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and colleagues, calculated the growing capacity of every country in the world, and compared it with food requirements, both now and projected forward to 2050.  Using current data on population, and food and water consumption in each nation, they were able to assess what…

  • The Uyghurs

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    What strikes me about the Uyghurs is how work and entertainment are done in community.  Knife sharpening, hair cutting, baking and  weaving are all communal enterprises – whether it be a row of knife sharpeners plying their trade on the square or weavers sitting four to a bench producing a carpet.  This is what modern…

  • Truly Inspiring

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    Mohammed Assaf managed to get past all the roadblocks and barriers to make it to the first stage of Arab Idol’s competition in Cairo. From a Gaza refugee camp, he eventually had to climb over the walls of the compound where the auditions were taking place because he arrived too late. Once inside, without a…