Winter Solstice

It was Solstice just the other day, the darkest time of the year in the northern hemisphere, but also the time when longer days resume, a strange conflation of darkness and coming light. I have just returned from an emergency visit to my father-in-law. A couple days ago, doctors told my husband that his 92-year-old [...]

Witnessing the Power of Humane Education

Last week I offered a mini humane education course for a class of 6th and 7th graders. I taught the students for 90 minutes each morning, weaving together the themes of critical thinking and compassionate choice-making in an effort to help free these students from the influences of advertising, peer imperatives, and desires that eclipse [...]

Statistics

In the book, The Myth of Progress, author Tom Wessels shares the following from Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: “Discussing forests, Worldwatch Institute categorically states that the world’s forest estate has declined significantly in both area and quality in recent decades. As we shall see in the section on forests, the longest data series from [...]