Category: Consciousness

Walmart is Us

A recent arti­cle on “The Dis­pos­able Work­er” (thank you, Rosa) has me rumi­nat­ing about our cul­ture. Espe­cial­ly after learn­ing that Wal­mart and Kel­ly Ser­vices are the two largest employ­ers in the Unit­ed States beyond the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment. Wal­mart alone has 1.8 mil­lion employ­ees, and has been sub­ject to con­sid­er­able con­tro­ver­sy regard­ing its busi­ness prac­tices. Kel­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wal­mart is Us

Blue Marble

Could there be any­thing more worth­while cel­e­brat­ing?  I grew up in the Pacif­ic North­west on twelve acres of land, half in pas­ture and orchard, half in woods. As a child, nature was my chief com­pan­ion, so to pick out only one day, Earth Day, to hon­or our remark­able island in space, this blue mar­ble, seems… Con­tin­ue read­ing Blue Mar­ble

A Very Shy Wild Animal

Over at Whiskey Riv­er I found a stun­ning quo­ta­tion from Thomas Mer­ton’s book, New Seeds of Con­tem­pla­tion: . The false self con­sists of all of the efforts we make to nur­ture a rep­u­ta­tion for our­selves in the mind of oth­ers. In our cul­ture, we have a com­pul­sive need to be val­i­dat­ed by exter­nal sources. But… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Very Shy Wild Animal