We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?