Earth Day 2014
Life marches ever onward Thousands of years come and go Constant motion of the tides Beings that ebb and flow Yet, there’s a change this Earth Day Parents and all grandparents Children arrive one-by-one This blue-green fragile planet The jewel of many suns Light begins a new Earth Day Made from nothing but stardust She…
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Paul Valdemar Horsdal, known professionally as Valdy, is a Canadian folk musician who has been writing songs and performing for more than forty years. I remember discovering his “Country Man” album in the seventies and the couple of times I saw him in concert I was amazed with how this one man and his guitar…
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As I watch new stories of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, it is sad to realize that my own hunger for things made from oil is part of the problem. Brian Walsh and Steven Bouma-Prediger (in their book Beyond Homelessness) speak of ecological homelessness and its causes. They describe ten such causes.…
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