mini reviews on most things cultural
I went to the store as usual making my best effort to read the labels and make conscious choices. Then I started sleuthing. Many clicks later and this is what I confirmed. Conscious consumption takes diligence. Lots of it. Here are some of the fruits of my labor: Loblaws doesn’t want Read more
“I start at 6:00. Sharp.” She said., “Life happens, I get it, but if you’re chronically late you have to look at that.” There were ten of us in the room but I was pretty convinced she was talking to me. It was 6:10 when I squeezed through the door, Read more
What if the most revolutionary thing you could do was to commit to living a fully conscious life? Some argue the Occupy Movement is a threat not because people mobilized, but because people realized they have voices and those voices were being heard. The somnambulist masses have awoken. (yes that’s Read more
Humpday. Once upon a time I hated Wednesdays. Nothing good ever happened on a Wednesday. Mondays offered the hope of a clean slate, Fridays brought release and Thursdays were magical. But on Wednesday I was stranded in the middle waiting to get to the end. And then things changed, as Read more
manifesto; noun, mission statement, proclamation, declaration, announcement Every since the Whitney Houston news and the onslaught of opinions, I’ve been re-examining my own struggles with change. Most people I know want to change something in their lives, whether it’s physical or material. We are saturated with books, DVDs, programs, pills and Read more
Like the rest of the world I woke up Sunday to the news that Whitney Houston had died. Opinions were flying fast and furious through the cyber sphere, and sadly a fair bit of it negative and judgmental. I spent the day sequestered in my room working. At one point Read more
There are a lot of people claiming to have a direct line to God. Their conversations don’t leave me with a lot of faith. I mean really, if I called up and the voice on the end of the line was telling me to go kill someone for them, I’d Read more
“This,” cried the scientist “is your Earth’s darkest hour!” ” The time for all Who’s who have blood that is red, to come to the aid of their planet!” he said. “We’ve GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So open your voice lad! For every voice counts!” Read more