Art by Anna Berezovskaya
If ferries stopped running to this man’s city, grocery shelves would likely be completely empty within three days. Similar issues exist in far too many communities all over the world. Isn’t it time we start thinking about how to decrease our dependence on food shipments and supermarkets?
Thanks to Upworthy for this post.
I dream of a family of stars. When one of us shines brightly, it inspires the rest of us to turn up our shine. There are no teachers in the STARFAMILY, only learner-sharers. While some of us are meant to lead, others clear the path and do the math, but we are all STARS, so comparison ceases to exist. RECIPROCITY is the only law, held up by the authority of love. We know that everything is VIBRATION, so we are radically responsible with what tunes we tell. Everyone in the starfamily is needed, even the CHAOS stirrers, who help us know dissonance which is the precursor to CHANGE. Every obstacle we surpass brings us closer to the TRUTH of our indispensability, which is also fleeting. We are disappearing COMETS, with but a blink of a life to make our streaks on the sky in an unselfconscious praising of the present, aching to return to the ONE LOVE which made us. ~ by Dreamwork with Toko-pa
Art by Antonio Caparo
Check out this inspiring video from the amazing young activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney. World Water Day is this coming Saturday, March 22 and there will be a globally synchronized ceremony to honor water. You are invited to participate wherever you are!
Issues like Fukushima, drought in California and elsewhere, flooding, toxic spills like West Virginia and Deep Horizon catastrophe in the gulf, the assault of fracking chemicals in aquifers, polar ice melt and others are more than enough to demand a swift and decisive response. If politicians are unable to lead, the people will. When water is threatened, all of life is threatened.
“Please dedicate Saturday March 22 to Love Water and Join Us at 3:00 pm in your Local Time Zone as we create a wave of intention moving across the planet. The Global Synchronized Moment for the World’s Waters will be at 3:00 pm PST (wherever you are in the world).
This launches a full year of action to deepen our relationship with water and get clean water to every human on the planet. Sign up to our email list to stay updated on movements you can plug into.
Together, we are a Global Synchronized Force of Nature.
Together, the World’s Waters will become Holy again.
Together, Love prevails on this Blue Planet.”
-The UNIFY Global Family
http://unify.org/love-water
“You’re walking the labyrinth of life. Yes, you’re meant to move forward, but almost never in a straight line. Yes, there’s an element of achievement, of beginning and ending, but those are minor compared to the element of being here now. In the moments you stop trying to conquer the labyrinth of life and simply inhabit it, you’ll realize it was designed to hold you safe as you explore what feels dangerous. You’ll see that you’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path that is meant to lead you not onward, but inward.” ~Martha Beck
Art by Jamie Zollars
Source ~ Shamantube
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” ~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Western culture has criminalized and demonized all experiences involving altered states of consciousness and any substances that put us into an altered state of consciousness. And this is clearly a war over consciousness that’s going on. It’s clear that our societies have an investment in preventing us from exploring where altered states of consciousness will lead us. Perhaps there is a deep fear that if we do explore those altered states of consciousness, we will not accept the power structures and the fairytale illusion of material wealth that we’re all brought up to pursue as though that’s the only thing to existence. If I, as an individual, am not sovereign over my consciousness, if I cannot decide what to do with my consciousness, which is the heart of my being, then I am not free, and I need not talk about freedom or living in a free society, or such issues as democracy, if my society will not allow me to explore my consciousness. If, in an altered state of consciousness, my behavior is disruptive in the public arena, then that behavior should rightly be controlled by society. But the personal and private exploration of our own consciousness is our own business, in my view, and is not the business of the State.” ~Graham Hancock
“If you’re not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do some heavy editing.” ~Terence McKenna
“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Stencil Art by Kriebel
Under The Blue Door 