Indigo Kalliope: Rhyme and Reason
Tonight, a departure from the usual political theme.Music, too, expresses an attitude to life and living. In recent weeks I have finished more than a dozen abstract acrylic pieces themed to different...
View ArticleTasty Bits v1.30 A Weekly Eco-Foodie Round-up
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...
View ArticleWYFP: False Advertising
We have all fallen prey to false advertising, often buying a product from a reputable company and ending up with a dud. I did just that two months ago: I bought a pair of Reebok "easy tone" and ended...
View ArticleTasty Bits v1.31 A Weekly Eco-Foodie Roundup
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...
View Article1 in 6 blogathon: Our children are unhealthy - poverty, food insecurity and...
Our children are unhealthy. This is in part due to hunger and poverty. It is also due to poor diet and lack of exercise. Each day as I look at the students in our middle class school in the Maryland...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Hunger Lives Near You
Good morning! Thank you so much for joining the 1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America, which will continue throughout the weekend. In December 2008, when Daily Kos hosted its first ever Feeding America...
View ArticleTasty Bits v1.32
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: A Challenge in Honor of My Mom
Good Afternoon, everyone. One in six Americans will face hunger some time this year. That's one in six people in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Throughout my adult lifetime, the...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Checking In from Oregon
Since our first go-round of this blogathon, back in 2009, we've gone from one-in-eight Americans being hungry to one-in-six. Not a good trend.In 2009, my state, Oregon, had the highest rate of...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Feeding Occupiers and the Homeless
So I've been planning for weeks to participate in this wonderful Feeding America blogathon, when a weird thing happened: The Occupy Movement started, and I found myself in full facilitator mode,...
View Article1 in 6: Is it real food?
Today is World Food Day. It is also Blog Action Day, where bloggers all over the world will be writing about food.This got me thinking about food as it gets produced more globally. What has to happen...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Food Banks and Food Pantries
The most critical need for food banks and food pantries is money. So the Donate button is going right here so that you can't miss it.For every $1 you donate, Feeding America helps provide 8 meals to...
View Article1 in 3: Windigo - Hunger in Native America.
Come. Sit with me a moment. I want to tell you a story.In the outside world, they'll soon be celebrating Halloween, with their ghosts and goblins and witches and other scary creatures. We have our...
View Article1 in 6: Feeding America: Food Wastrels
In today's world, where so many wake up in poverty and go to sleep hungry, each of us should ask: "how can I change this?" It is a sin to waste food while others do not have enough to eat. Every year...
View Article1 in 6 : Hunger in Vancouver
Dear Friends, This is a reprise of the diary I wrote for one of last year's Feeding America blogathon. My personal situation has changed immensely, for the better, since I wrote it, but it is no...
View Article1 in 6: DIVE. SHARE. FEED.
Zipline passing by the Ferry Building over Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Justin BeckFriday Evening. 7 PM. I am sitting chilled in a pumpkin field Friday night as the moon rises in a...
View ArticleAre Dreams Dead?
With the news all full of frustration and anger, is it possible that a dream can still come true? I hope so, because we have a unique chance to make it happen. But it will take a little help from a...
View ArticleTasty Bits v1.33
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...
View ArticleThe Key To Rainforest Destruction and Child Slavery Might Be In Your Pantry
Normally, I do not cross-post my articles from Alternet on other blogs, but this particular story touched me so much that I really want others to read it. Not because I wrote it, but because it's a...
View ArticleTales from the Larder: Filling Sandwiches for Activists
The OWS movement is gaining traction in almost every country save for the usual repressive regimes, and Canada (too damn nice!) I am incredibly encouraged, as you are, about this new kind of revolution...
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