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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The Power and Politics Behind What We Eat!

July 3, 2008

The more I read about pet food; the more I learn about human food and how the two are connected; which in turn brings me to the power and politics behind what we eat! Does this sound a little far fetched? I so wish I could make this story more apealing…everyone needs to know what [...]

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Journeys With My Canine

June 11, 2008

DEFINING WILDNESS AND HOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS One evening, I went on a tiny journey with my canine Pieper: We ‘howled’ together and I watched as Pieper transformed. Her eyes got this untamed wildness in them. How exciting to see and hear the wildness in her. I felt pretty wild myself and wonder about this [...]

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Salvation: Walking on Four Legs and Wagging it’s Tail

June 1, 2008

Salvation for me is treating humans, animals and nature as a  single system. Finding my way to thinking about this kind of consciousness is easy…implementing the idea is another. Is this a mind-boggling concept or a simple truth? As I trek into the woods this way of thinking becomes a simple truth. Living so close [...]

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Environmental Dreams and the Tax Man

April 11, 2008

Finding Our Space in Time I’m watching ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ for the second or third time. The timelessness of the film brings thoughts of my mother and our life together. As I watch the film, I’m hoping my mother and dad had laughter…strong and loud; just as Robert and Francisca did during the [...]

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Animals: Second Class Victims of Foreclosures

April 2, 2008

Animals Left Behind In April 2007, there were 147,708 U.S. foreclosure filings–default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions, according to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace based in Irvine, California. Today nearly 2.2 million Americans may lose their homes. As these families struggle to survive and find rentals and housing they are faced with options [...]

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The Way of Animals: Plight of The Sumatran Tiger

March 13, 2008

TRAFFIC: CONSUMERS PARTNERS IN WILDLIFE CRIME Today, the Sumatran tiger is being sold Body part by body part into extinction! The Sumatran tiger is listed as Critically Endangered on IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, the highest category of threat before extinction in the wild. “We cannot afford to lose any more of these magnificent [...]

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Winter Hiking: A Dip Into Serenity

February 24, 2008

Rocky Mountain Splash A February 2008 view of the Stratton Open Space resevoir from the Ponderosa trail. The resevoir is at the bottom of Cheyenne Mountain near the Will Rogers Sun Shrine. From a distance it looks as though the reservoir has a swirling funnel; opining up and swallowing the water. As we arrive closer [...]

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Cattle Abuse in Slaughterhouse

February 18, 2008

“LOS ANGELES – An undercover video showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts has led to the largest beef recall in the United States and a scramble to find out if any of the meat is still destined for school children’s lunches.” Watching ‘NBC’s Today’ show about animal abuse in a slaughterhouse; I’m [...]

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Animals, Wilderness and Being Present

February 17, 2008

Wilderness As much as I love the woods, I probably wouldn’t go there nearly as much if I had not had such incredible angel beasts in my life. The love and responsibility for these canines kept and keeps me on the trails and in the present! In Touch With Nature Having frequent contact to the [...]

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