Tonight we will have our party going on! The smaller version of what we had planned will take place at the ice skating rink. Now, remember, we are traveling through the Caribbean, but yes there is an ice skating rink! Not that anybody is skating

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So here I am, waiting at the Amsterdam Airport. I am about to fly to Miami harbor to meet the members of my team, including an Aroma Jockey, an Experience Jockey from Miami, 3 deaf dancers, 3 sign dancers from Canada, 2 instructors, 1 producer, and 2 assistants. Tomorrow we will board on one of the biggest cruise ships in the world. For 3 days we will entertain 4,000 deaf visitors on this cruise, the biggest event ever in deaf history.   Read more...

I am still wildly enamored of Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to tell you about me and my mother. Today is her birthday and I want to stand still for a moment and see all that she has given to me and what she means to me.

She was there to love me, feed me and clean me when I couldn

Several weeks ago a friend told me about a concert of Mongolian music that was coming to town. Since I am captivated by the world and its variety of cultures, traditions and mindsets, I ran to get tickets. The show turned out to be a blend of styles, from traditional Mongolian, to jazz, to percussion, to traditional Japanese. The pieces were performed by Mongolians, Chinese, Japanese and an American: a true blending of the world spirit in its many manifestations. But there was something else that made this concert very special. It was given for charity.   Read more...

I got a lovely email this week from a man who is a Peace Tax Resister. In it, he suggested I spearhead a new website called Peace On. His idea is that our various and sundry War(s) on various and sundry themes

It seems that so often the buzzword these days is

With effect from 1st September 2007, the ban on polythene bags commonly known as "Kavera" in Uganda took effect. Uganda joined her neighbours in the East African community in banning a material that has wreaked havoc on the environment. It has now become illegal to import these polythene bags and its use is being phased out. The polythene bags have been a major environmental hazard and a menace for many years especially in both urban and rural settings where mushrooming commercial activities increased the demand for "kaveera" for packaging among other uses.   Read more...

For our October submission we Bloggers have been requested to write a piece about the Environment. So much press about that timely topic is concerned with correcting human-caused disasters. That is crucially important, of course, but I have decided to focus on the topic from a different angle: the Environment and how it affects our soul. Since I live in Japan, I will write about how things manifest here.   Read more...

I have recently joined the moderation team of an online community by the global project dropping knowledge (http://www.droppingknowledge.org). What is dropping knowledge?

Today bloggers all around the world are going to write about nature, conservation, the need for a more sustainable environment. I don

Although I am a member of the English Department in my college, I also teach in the other departments as well. I always try to have my English lessons tie in with my students

I live in a rural community where there is little to no overt emphasis on caring for the environment; it

Is there room in your home for peace? I

I am an optimist, but in writing a blog about the environment I found myself dubious about the value of small progressive steps. I just don't see buying a Prius or hydrogen fuels happening in time. So I've written about what I see as the obstacles instead. We need to look at environmental rights as fundamental human rights, but won't. Here you go.....

This blog is influenced by The Rambler, by Samuel Johnson. I suggest that environmental rights are human rights, and like all human rights, they should be enforceable in the courts of all countries. It may be, however,that although an International Convention on Human Rights is capable of broadly protecting our environment, it may pass without notice, huddled in a variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life. Even though our natural environment is comprised of individual parts comprising a whole, our environmental community does not operate that way. Admittedly, the hardest work is done by the valiant efforts of those who struggle to protect every forest, river, and species. I have done this by arguing many lawsuits in state and federal courts. But the law which is the will of the people and the guardian of the environment is inadequate to the task.   Read more...

I had a great experience yesterday. I went to a one day retreat where we did mostly tantric yoga exercises. Your thought;

Once again, I am inspired to write. I do so to introduce you to a young man who is both extraordinary and ordinary. Before I share his story, I want you to know some of my own philosophy and observations of what I call the realized expressions of life. One is born with the ability to seize and manipulate the experiences of ones realities and create expressions and outcomes that are a lot more than just mundane. Seizing opportunities, perhaps with or perhaps without fear, yet seizing opportunities that others do not notice or are not inspired by.

A case in point is the young man I am writing about, Roni, born in Northern India in a home/sanctuary created for those whose parents and grand parents were affected with leprosy.   Read more...

By the time Katie posts this, I will be just days shy of fifty years of age. Like many of you, I

If so, do look at this MSC in Responsibility and Business Practice at the University of Bath, UK.

This course addresses the challenges currently facing society as we seek to integrate successful business practice with a concern for social, environmental and ethical issues. It looks at the complex relationship between business decisions and their impact on local and world communities and economies, on the environment and on the workplace itself. Participants will develop management practices which are responsive to pressures for greater awareness in these areas. The course offers a wide range of alternative perspectives on business, all of which challenge ideas about where "responsibility" begins and ends. Participants will learn about management techniques and approaches being developed in leading-edge organizations, and will test the relevance of these ideas and practices in their own workplaces.   Read more...