Everyday Wonders

Dennis Kucinich and 'Wackiness' | Common Dreams

2012-03-10T14:58:00.001-08:00

Dennis Kucinich and 'Wackiness' | Common Dreams

Eric Holt-Giménez: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food a...

2012-03-10T10:33:00.001-08:00

What You Should Know About the Company Pushing Genetically Engineered Salmon on Consumers | Food | AlterNet

2012-03-09T14:47:00.001-08:00

What You Should Know About the Company Pushing Genetically Engineered Salmon on Consumers | Food | AlterNet

Prolonged Attack on Public Education and Unions Leaves Teaching Profession Woeful | Common Dreams

2012-03-08T15:57:00.001-08:00

Prolonged Attack on Public Education and Unions Leaves Teaching Profession Woeful | Common Dreams

Why Can’t You Smoke Pot? Because Lobbyists Are Getting Rich Off of the War on Drugs | Drugs | AlterNet

2012-03-08T06:10:00.001-08:00

Why Can’t You Smoke Pot? Because Lobbyists Are Getting Rich Off of the War on Drugs | Drugs | AlterNet

Eastern Bluebird [HD]

2012-03-08T05:59:00.001-08:00

Indigo Bunting

2012-03-08T05:58:00.001-08:00

Birding by Ear: Northern Cardinal Song

2012-03-08T05:56:00.001-08:00

3/8/2012 -- Midwest severe weather outbreak -- ANOTHER STORM OUT WEST

2012-03-08T05:53:00.001-08:00

Union-buster joins Wisconsin recall fight

2012-03-07T18:24:00.001-08:00

Union-buster joins Wisconsin recall fight

James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

2012-03-07T18:21:00.001-08:00

Don't Worry About Where We're Going

2012-03-07T07:44:00.000-08:00

What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost | Common Dreams

2012-03-07T07:40:00.000-08:00

What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost | Common Dreams

Disturbing images from Iran you rarely see

2012-03-07T07:37:00.000-08:00

Research updates on Lyme disease, Aids & Autism - Pr Luc Montagnier, No...

2012-03-07T07:16:00.000-08:00

Cancers, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Illnesses: Why “Miracle Drugs” Are the Problem, Not the Solution

2012-03-06T17:56:00.000-08:00

Cancers, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Illnesses: Why “Miracle Drugs” Are the Problem, Not the Solution

Profoundly Flawed Study Used as Basis for CDC’s New Report on Supposed “Dangers” of Raw Milk

2012-03-06T17:55:00.000-08:00

Profoundly Flawed Study Used as Basis for CDC’s New Report on Supposed “Dangers” of Raw Milk

New Scientific Data Forces Government to Reverse Its Stance on Fluoride in the Water Supply

2012-03-06T17:54:00.000-08:00

New Scientific Data Forces Government to Reverse Its Stance on Fluoride in the Water Supply

GOP Presidential Candidates Pose Super Threat to Working People | Common Dreams

2012-03-06T16:53:00.001-08:00

GOP Presidential Candidates Pose Super Threat to Working People | Common Dreams

Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell the Full Story: Long-term Hardship a Tremendous Burden on Millions of Workers and the Economy | Common Dreams

2012-03-06T16:53:00.000-08:00

Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell the Full Story: Long-term Hardship a Tremendous Burden on Millions of Workers and the Economy | Common Dreams

Should Rush be in the Hall of Famous Missourians? | Claire McCaskill

2012-03-05T19:18:00.000-08:00

Should Rush be in the Hall of Famous Missourians? | Claire McCaskill

Lessons Not Learned: New Map Shows 120 Million Americans at Nuclear Fallout Risk | Common Dreams

2012-03-05T16:04:00.000-08:00

Lessons Not Learned: New Map Shows 120 Million Americans at Nuclear Fallout Risk | Common Dreams

109 Organizations Take Issue With Obama’s Support for Fracking | Common Dreams

2012-03-05T10:41:00.000-08:00

109 Organizations Take Issue With Obama’s Support for Fracking | Common Dreams

Help for Haiti's Horses

2012-03-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

Filipino prisoners cook up a storm

2012-03-04T18:28:00.000-08:00

The Boss embraces Occupy

2012-03-04T06:35:00.000-08:00

The Boss embraces Occupy

Springsteen in the age of Occupy

2012-03-04T06:29:00.000-08:00

Springsteen in the age of Occupy

3/4/2012 -- Steaming Plumes appear in Arkansas = DORMANT VOLCANOES BEING...

2012-03-04T06:26:00.000-08:00

Costs of Climate Change Touching Down All Around: Insurers | Common Dreams

2012-03-03T09:15:00.000-08:00

Costs of Climate Change Touching Down All Around: Insurers | Common Dreams

To Rick Santorum and Other Self-Righteous Ideologues Who Know Nothing of What They Speak: Meet Ronan | Common Dreams

2012-03-03T09:13:00.000-08:00

To Rick Santorum and Other Self-Righteous Ideologues Who Know Nothing of What They Speak: Meet Ronan | Common Dreams

3/3/2012 -- " (never) in my life.. " -- EXTREME hail in Fort Branch Indi...

2012-03-03T04:17:00.000-08:00

Tornadoes rip through central US

2012-03-02T20:38:00.000-08:00

Fukushima: Chaos reigns

2012-03-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

Fukushima: Chaos reigns

Susan Cain: The power of introverts

2012-03-02T18:01:00.000-08:00

Open letter to Bruce Springsteen et al

2012-03-02T17:30:00.000-08:00

Open letter to Bruce Springsteen et al

To Bruce Et Al: Time to Hold Power to Account | Common Dreams

2012-03-02T17:27:00.000-08:00

To Bruce Et Al: Time to Hold Power to Account | Common Dreams

Down Production: Birds Abused for Their Feathers

2012-03-02T14:36:00.000-08:00

Down Production: Birds Abused for Their Feathers: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Feds Plan to Strip Endangered Species Act Protection From Gray Wolves Across United States | Common Dreams

2012-03-01T18:50:00.000-08:00

Feds Plan to Strip Endangered Species Act Protection From Gray Wolves Across United States | Common Dreams

Trust the Experts On Women's Health, Because Middle-Aged Men Know the Most About Everyting | Common Dreams

2012-03-01T18:49:00.000-08:00

Trust the Experts On Women's Health, Because Middle-Aged Men Know the Most About Everyting | Common Dreams

New Art-Say a Little Prayer Papier Mache Treasure Box

2012-03-01T16:19:00.000-08:00

Just finished today.

More info. at:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/94261161/papier-mache-mixed-media-treasure-box

Stop Monsanto's Harassment of Non-GMO Farmers!

2012-03-01T16:10:00.000-08:00

Stop Monsanto's Harassment of Non-GMO Farmers!

A Bond Like No Other: The Ties Between Brothers and Sisters -- and What Happens When a Sibling Dies | Personal Health | AlterNet

2012-02-29T20:51:00.000-08:00

A Bond Like No Other: The Ties Between Brothers and Sisters -- and What Happens When a Sibling Dies | Personal Health | AlterNet

Minimum Wage: Catching up with 1968 | Common Dreams

2012-02-29T20:48:00.000-08:00

Minimum Wage: Catching up with 1968 | Common Dreams

Around the Farm and Back Again

2012-02-29T20:45:00.000-08:00

Here are the girls and one of our little roosters greeting us on the way to the barn and the evening feeding.
You would never know by their placid demeanors that the night before had been a chorus of viscous winds and storms. At least the damage was negligible here. Unfortunately, that was not the case everywhere.

Finally, I remembered the camera and these flowers were my inspiration. They have been at it for about a week. Cheerful beauties that they are.
I fear that my tomato, pepper, cabbage and Brussels sprout babies are going to outgrow their quarters before it is safe for them to venture outdoors.

Can you find the kitty?
It's Stripey, one of our lovable and curious barn brothers. It is his domain at the barn and nothing goes uninvestigated.

This pretty gal is trying to eat her hay but a pesty human is taking pictures.

Welsh are famous, at least the best ones for their huge liquid eyes.

The girls at the table so to speak.

My illustrious partner. And yes, I said partner.

Gregg Braden - Institute of HeartMath

2012-02-29T09:22:00.000-08:00

USDA Decides the Current Rush to Rubber-Stamp GMO Foods Is Too Slow!

2012-02-28T18:01:00.000-08:00

USDA Decides the Current Rush to Rubber-Stamp GMO Foods Is Too Slow!

Wisconsin’s Scott Walker tries to shed anti-union label

2012-02-28T13:52:00.000-08:00

Wisconsin’s Scott Walker tries to shed anti-union label

Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean

2012-02-28T13:45:00.000-08:00

Antarctic Ocean Alliance Calls for World's Largest Marine Reserve | Common Dreams

2012-02-28T13:24:00.000-08:00

Antarctic Ocean Alliance Calls for World's Largest Marine Reserve | Common Dreams

Lessons from Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Report Shows Millions Remain at Risk | Common Dreams

2012-02-28T13:23:00.000-08:00

Lessons from Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Report Shows Millions Remain at Risk | Common Dreams

David Suzuki on the Symbiosis Between Species

2012-02-28T12:10:00.000-08:00

Mercury,Venus, Jupiter, Crescent Moon Conjunction Time Lapse Feb 25th, 2012

2012-02-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

Berman Exposed

2012-02-27T18:35:00.000-08:00

Berman Exposed

False Environmentalism - by the Health Ranger

2012-02-27T05:51:00.000-08:00

My Potato Project; The Importance of "Organic"

2012-02-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

Movie Recommend-Georgia O'Keeffe

2012-02-25T21:51:00.000-08:00

This film was a reminder of many things. Of course, O'Keeffe's amazing talent. Of how long a road it is to walk with art. Especially if you are a woman and one that steps outside the norm of what you are to do. I.E. be a baby factory and a parcel of some man's life.

This tribute to her amazing art and her life long commitment to it. To her calling.

Bones In The Sky ~ Dan Fogelberg (Lyrics)

Up through the branches
The stars shine above on the arroyos and mesas you loved
And as the moon rises, the black mountain mourns
For the old friend he'll look on no more
Jacks-in-the-Pulpit, bones in the sky
Long winding rivers that never ran dry
And the secrets she gathered from the wild blowing sands
Breathed in her heart and her hands

I sing to your spirit where all my dreams dwell
The vision--the freedom, the life lived so well
And I sing in your canyons and the echoes ring clear
And I wish somehow you may still hear

I remember reading of her and her long years solo after her love and nemesis passed. She was a Scorpio and one hard strong long reed of a woman. One of her Jimson Weed paintings hangs above our book shelf. Two of the loves of my life. Art and books.

New Chicken Art-Blue Andalusian Cock

2012-02-25T11:47:00.000-08:00

About 16" x 20"

On wrapped canvas.

More info. at:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/93844012/blue-andalusian-cock-acrylic-painting-on

Monsanto Reaches 'Agent Orange' Settlement With US Victims | Common Dreams

2012-02-24T20:09:00.000-08:00

Monsanto Reaches 'Agent Orange' Settlement With US Victims | Common Dreams

Horse meat processing plant proposed in the Ozarks

2012-02-24T14:02:00.000-08:00

Horse meat processing plant proposed in the Ozarks

For the love of bees & PAN

2012-02-24T09:11:00.000-08:00

For the love of bees & PAN

French court finds Monsanto guilty

2012-02-24T09:09:00.000-08:00

French court finds Monsanto guilty

Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds | Common Dreams

2012-02-24T05:05:00.000-08:00

Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds | Common Dreams

Russ Feingold, Obama Election Co-Chair: "The President Is Wrong" To Get ...

2012-02-24T05:03:00.000-08:00

Big Band Vocalists | Preview | PBS

2012-02-24T04:56:00.000-08:00

Don't Get Fooled Again on Iran

2012-02-24T04:52:00.000-08:00

The Buying of the President 2012: Meet the Super-PAC Mega-Donors | Common Dreams

2012-02-23T04:44:00.000-08:00

The Buying of the President 2012: Meet the Super-PAC Mega-Donors | Common Dreams

On the Brink: Fiscal Austerity Threatens a Global Recession

2012-02-23T04:35:00.000-08:00

In Performance at the White House | "Five Long Years" | PBS

2012-02-22T18:55:00.000-08:00

Why Small-Town America Is Drowning in Drugs | Drugs | AlterNet

2012-02-22T13:33:00.000-08:00

Why Small-Town America Is Drowning in Drugs | Drugs | AlterNet

Bearing Witness: The Brutal Last Report of Marie Colvin | Common Dreams

2012-02-22T13:29:00.000-08:00

Bearing Witness: The Brutal Last Report of Marie Colvin | Common Dreams

How the Wisconsin Uprising Changed America and Why Its Renegade Politics Are Here to Stay | | AlterNet

2012-02-22T04:19:00.000-08:00

How the Wisconsin Uprising Changed America and Why Its Renegade Politics Are Here to Stay | | AlterNet

Big Farma Once Again Walking All Over Your Safety—and the Constitution

2012-02-21T20:25:00.000-08:00

Big Farma Once Again Walking All Over Your Safety—and the Constitution

Double-Duty Donors, Part II: Large Numbers of Wealthy Donors Hit Legal Limit on Giving to Candidates, Turn to Presidential Super PACs in Continuing Trend - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

2012-02-21T15:12:00.000-08:00

Double-Duty Donors, Part II: Large Numbers of Wealthy Donors Hit Legal Limit on Giving to Candidates, Turn to Presidential Super PACs in Continuing Trend - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

Turbowolf with Graham Hancock, Pt.3: Question authority! Meaning of 2012...

2012-02-21T06:04:00.000-08:00

2/21/2012 -- 4.0 magnitude earthquake New Madrid Seismic Zone -- Midwest...

2012-02-21T06:00:00.000-08:00

Thich Nhat Hanh: Connect With and Love Mother Earth to Heal the Planet | Common Dreams

2012-02-21T05:57:00.000-08:00

Thich Nhat Hanh: Connect With and Love Mother Earth to Heal the Planet | Common Dreams

Seasick: Dead Sea Otters, the Canaries in a Coal Mine of 'Sick Seas' | Common Dreams

2012-02-21T05:56:00.000-08:00

Seasick: Dead Sea Otters, the Canaries in a Coal Mine of 'Sick Seas' | Common Dreams

Acts of Love | Common Dreams

2012-02-20T06:00:00.000-08:00

Acts of Love | Common Dreams

Movie Recommend-Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2012-02-19T06:15:00.000-08:00

This was a thoughtfully done documentary about a magical place. I have spent some time in caves, one remarkable cave in particular so I could sense the history that bled into their experience there. The juxtaposing of peoples from different times. Very eerie and they talk about that briefly in the film. So I will try and post both an interview with Herzog about the film and then a trailer. It's a long slow moving film but the art is spectacular and the setting in France remarkable. See it.

Here's the interview with the film maker..............

And here is the official trailer.

I personally subscribe to the view, held by other not so mainstream researchers but more credible in my mind because they are not bought and paid for, that humanity has been here much much longer than science or religion assumes. I believe that advanced civilizations have risen and fallen and that earth changes have repeatedly cleansed the earth of all traces many many times. I think we are an old species with roots in the stars that is attempting to get it right here. And taking a very long time doing it. Thus the history in this cave seems quite old but I sense that it is really just a beautiful drop in the bucket.