Who Speaks for the Trees?
When I was seven I met one of my childhood heroes, Dr Seuss, who was kind enough to come all the way to New Zealand to sign my copy of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I gave him a picture of a monster. Of all his wonderful books, The Lorax was his…
Read MoreOcean of Tears – The Song of the Last Blue Whale
The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on our planet, and one of the most intelligent and sensitive. In 1984 I visited the Greenpeace office in Adelaide, Australia, and they told me that blue whales are most likely already biologically extinct, because their were so few of them left that they couldn’t easily find…
Read MoreFinally, an Infectious Epidemic We Can Learn to Love!
“The number of Americans who meditate spiked to 14.2% in 2017, up from 4.1% in 2012” I’ve been teaching meditation for more than 40 years so I’ve been tracking this trend for decades. But this recent surge in interest in the US took even me by surprise. We seem to be fast approaching that 20%…
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