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  • The Reaper

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  • I Step Into My Waking Life

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    I step into my waking life Inhabited still By the realm of dreams The world of spirit clings Gossamer-like To golden jeweled morning In the deep green shade Dappled with amber light White day Cleaves briefly To purple night Then spills onto The floor of my being

  • Sunday Prayer

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  • Certified Naturally Grown Label Tailored for Direct-Market Farmers

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    Mary Esch of the Associated Press writes about some organic farmers in the Northeast that are eschewing organic certification by the USDA: Started by a group of organic farmers in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley as a backlash against federal takeover of the organic program in 2002, Certified Naturally Grown has expanded over the past decade…

  • Shift Change Trailer

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    Shift Change is a new documentary (to have its world premiere on October 18, 2012, in Oakland, CA) that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, Spain.  The film couldn’t be more timely, as 2012 has been declared by the U.N. as the “International Year of the Cooperative.” Take a look at the preview and please…

  • Anti-GMO Movement Flourishing

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    Lots of news today on the anti-GMO front. NASDAQ notes that the right-to-choose movement is gaining strength and may be negatively impacting Big Food Stocks: Companies like Monsanto — the dominant producer of most genetically modified corn, soybean, and cotton seeds — see its revenues tied to extreme weather conditions that affect crop yields, not…

  • Writer sought to gather Dumfries and Galloway folklore

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    From BBC News, South Sotland: A writer is being sought to gather and retell folklore, myths, legends and tales about Dumfries and Galloway. The initiative is being organised by the Wigtown Book Festival with funding from Fresh Start for the Arts. It has been loosely inspired by John Mactaggart’s work of 1876, the Scottish Gallovidian…

  • Is Moral Masochism At The Heart of Religion?

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    A friend once encouraged me to read the writings of St. John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic Saint, as a way to gain spiritual insight. At the time, I rather callously dismissed the book and St. John’s teachings.  What put me off completely was a passage in which St. John abjectly…

  • Photo of the Day

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  • Animal Skyways

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Canada’s most-travelled highway tears through the country’s oldest national park, imperiling both humans and wildlife. But park administrators came up with an inspired solution: They look, for the most part, like typical pedestrian infrastructure: elliptical or boxy concrete culverts under the highway high enough for a human to pass through, or…