Ineffable Hunger: Starving for Purpose

January 11, 2009

There is an ineffable hunger in each of us that food just doesn’t reach. Yet we keep stuffing ourselves: we live in a nation of obesity; 32% of United States children are overweight; 60% of the Australia population is overweight; making the Aussies the number one obese country and the U.S. a close second. Starving [...]

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Winter, Water and our Animal Friends

December 27, 2008

The winter season in Colorado can be dry and brittle…thirst is always a factor. Moisture evaporates fast. I’m so grateful for indoor plumbing…turning on the faucet and having clear, clean and cool water fill a glass is wonderful! When I fill my glass, I’ve made a habit of checking my furry friend’s water dish Animals [...]

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Open Letter: Obama-Biden Economic Team Members

November 24, 2008

Dear Obama-Biden Economic Team Members: Much of our foundation for health as a nation lies with the food we consume? It does not take a rocket scientist to see the connection between the cancer that is so prevalent in our society and the food we eat. The health care industry is the largest industry in [...]

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Education: Where Every Trail Begins

October 26, 2008

Responsibility to our Community is my ‘civic duty’; your ‘civic duty’. It is each person’s responsibility to understand the social, economic, cultural and environmental issues which face their community; and be involved at some level to meet those responsibilities. Casting a vote, is one single act of this responsibility…however, it must not end there! Government [...]

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Marie Antoinette: First Class All The Way

October 15, 2008

No industry or government should be built by coning its citizens. And yet, we let banks, industry and government squelch our ineffable spirit; succumb to their marketing and believe its entertainment; buy whatever they’re selling to feel good and to feel good about ourselves…and we are so full of ourselves; we think we have choices. [...]

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Food: A Dark and Dangerous Place

October 2, 2008

Last week I attempted to do an update with regard to the Pet Food Recall and got side tracked: Pet Food Recall: Trail of Tears, which gives a heart wrenching account of the loss of my Golden Retriever, Annie Oakley. Today, I wanted to get an update on China’s baby milk poisoning and landed on [...]

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911: Canine Leads Man to Safety

September 11, 2008

Dorado was lying under his blind master’s desk on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower when the plane hit. Glass and flying debre was everywhere. Chaos surrounded them. Omar Eduardo Rivera knew he was doomed. There is know way he could manuver through the chaos. The kindest thing he thought was [...]

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Aphrodite: Feline Extraordinare

September 2, 2008

When I first met Aphrodite she was up for grabs; a ‘Nine Lives Rescue’ service feline. She was scrawny and lanky; where did she get such a big name, as clearly she was not the pick of the litter. She was maybe a year or so old. As I had no specific breed of cat [...]

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Great Big Love: Sweeping Across the Sky

August 7, 2008

“I like my life just fine.” I definitely agree. This is a line from Bruce Cockburn’s Great Big Love Sweeping Across the Sky. I spent the day, about five hours, helping my friends get their garage organized for a ‘moving sale’. While Pieper (my Golden Retriever) couldn’t quite grasp the whole idea and was none [...]

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Dealing with Identity and Credit Card Theft

July 17, 2008

I wrote my first draft for this post on a yellow pad. Sometimes I like to write on a yellow pad with long and broad stokes; much like a painter would enjoy a large canvas.Telling this story needs broad strokes; I need to find room between the lines to identify my emotions. All my identifying [...]

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