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I really, really love the blog Sweet Juniper.  And really, who wouldn’t want to be a part of the family that takes note of feral houses overgrown with vines and other abandoned vines, who makes super fabulous stuffed dolls, who lets their children expend winter energy in graffiti tunnels, and who throws birthday parties like [...]

I am currently reading Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains”, which is about Paul Farmer, the founding of Partners In Health, and a powerful statement regarding the tackling of overwhelming public health issues–and some of the gross acts that led to such disparities between the world’s wealthy and impoverished, particularly in Haiti and Peru.  Above all, [...]

“‘Organic Gardening would be the first publication I’d squash, because it’s the most subversive.  I believe that organic gardeners are in the forefront of a serious effort to save the world by changing man’s orientation to it, to move away from the collective, centrist, superindustrial state, toward a simpler, realer one-to-one relationship with the earth [...]

This is a really happy ad by the Ad Council in partnership with the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse and volunteer ad agency Campbell-Ewald.  This commercial is part of an effort to communicate to fathers that their presence is essential to their children’s well-being and provides info to fathers on how to become better dads.  Love [...]