Beyond Hope or Despair, by Judy Fox
Although the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, I can’t stop responding. It’s beyond reason, beyond emotion, beyond hope or despair.
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Although the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, I can’t stop responding. It’s beyond reason, beyond emotion, beyond hope or despair.
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In this climate, even a plastic water bottle has the power to divide.
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Today I know a deep and everlasting love both for Kay, my milk mother, and for my blood mother, Marie. I wouldn’t be here without both of them. Although they’re gone now, together, they’re alive in me.
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Nothing ever evens out. Tears come down wet, whether in fear, grief, delight, or gratitude. That summer, I let the leg anomalies slip off the scales and chose joy over terror.
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I consistently end up facing the same dilemma. Why should I live in a mud hut and never buy Spandex leggings or stream Netflix when the real destroyers of the planet will bring it down to its knees, anyway, from the comfort of their golf course in the tropics and with the money they’ve hidden in off-shore accounts?
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On this Fourth of July, a day of celebrating freedom and independence, my place, my heart, and my thoughts are with one who doesn’t have freedom.
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As a spiritual person who follows the way of love, and who above all values kindness, I loath myself for the hatred that lives in my belly.
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Can those who protest, those who create reforms within a system, those who establish new systems and those who dream radical new visions recognize each other’s importance and interdependence?
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Here in this reflective world of tea plantations and mountain walks, temple bells and sacred chants, hilltop monasteries and ancient marketplaces, I discover sanctuary.
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For many millennia on Earth, the cycles of life and death flowed smoothly, predictably. Then came...
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Students to town: “Our generation is fed up with the pollution and toxicity that we have inherited. We want change.”
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It’s not that Neverland is so great. It’s just that it holds such a sense of possibility.
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