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So how’s your garden coming along? With all the sun and rain, DH’s is coming along nicely. He’s already had a few large tomatoes with more coming. Peppers are prolific too. Carrots and onions are doing well. The hostas are blooming. My other pots, herbs and flowers have filled in. The lavendar smells especially nice.
We do enjoy this outside room – for the few months we have it!
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This is fabulous. Scientists, architects and designers are realizing that they can make everyday activities healthier and fun – The Fun Theory. Check it out:
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Another week with beautiful, abundant and bright Farmers’ Market flowers!
There were also big bunches of lemon basil – really fragrant and only $1 for an armfull. I use it in tea, cooking, pesto and salads. I love the farmers’ market (sigh).
Recently people in Israel, and elsewhere too, are beginning to see that the purpose of the economy is to serve human beings, not the other way around. Human beings create the economy and we can change it.
Nearly 300,000 people have demonstrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel demanding change. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2011
Itzik Shmuli, head of the National Union of Israeli Students, rebuked assertions that the movement has become partisan or overly politicized.
“We aren’t asking for a change of personnel in the government or a change in the coalition in the parliament that was elected by the people. We are young people who are demanding a change in the cruel economic policies. We are demanding a personal economy over one that tramples, we are demanding an economy that takes into consideration the suffering of people and not one that only crunches numbers,” Shmuli said.
“We want a more correct balance between the free market and the human economy. We are demanding serious attention to closing social gaps and for a more far-reaching answer to be given to the basic needs of the citizens of the country, in particular the country’s weakest citizens.”
Read more about Israeli’s demands for justice – NOT charity, here. When will we demand the same for people here in the U.S.?
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Where did we ever get the idea that war could bring peace? Violence only brings more violence, not only for those who are on the receiving end but for those who perpetrate it.
We are smarter than this. Resistence to violence can take many forms. To become a society that values peace, we must learn non-violent and peaceful ways to resist violence and create change.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi.
This is powerful. Watch Pathways to Peace.
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