Every war is a war against children. –Egalntyne Jebb, founder Save the Children a century ago. These introductions to people I have, that is, keyholing into their lives, immersing into their dreams and sharing their gifts of living, learning their avocations, and then welding connections to my own life with theirs have happened this way […]
The famous “rescuing hug” I was recently reminded of the incredible story of the “rescuing hug” photo (above). To sum up the basics: Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born on October 17, 1995 — 12 weeks ahead of their due date. Kyrie weighed only 2 pounds, 3 ounces. Brielle was even smaller and far more […]
You didn’t need to hear it from me that the USA is subjected to some of the most insane and inhumane policies tied to the criminal injustice system; tied to mass public K12 education; and corporate overlording; or anti-union activities; also to taxation; or finance; and health care; tied to infrastructure care; or tied to […]
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Most people have heard capitalism described unerringly as the “law of the jungle” and a “dog-eat-dog world.” The pathos of capitalism is currently playing out in Vancouver, where grown-up millionaires are playing a kids’s game called hockey. Professional sports serve as a microcosm of rampant capitalism — a, perhaps necessary, distraction for the masses. Many […]
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I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.” ― Charles Bowden, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family You don’t need a thousand hours studying what trauma is, what forms it might take, delving into […]
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I do ground-truthing from a very folksy and small-townish perspective. I have found myself “stuck” here on the Central Oregon Coast, really, where my own destiny seems etched in the crumbling sandstone holding up the tourist-laden Highway 101. I’ve exhausted the labor market here, since the school district has banned me as a substitute teacher […]
Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the […]
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Guess what, renters? You no longer have to pay rent! Guess what, owners? You still have to pay your mortgages and taxes. What will that do to you? You know: It will strip you of the property you own (unless you own it outright), but even then, the lack of income from rents will drive you […]
I host the 4th hour of the h@lexxx J0n3s show again to cover the techniques and plans of how the ecumenist movement was funded and turned to the strategy of the global elites. I cover the history of religious subversion, the Rockefeller’s usage of the ecumenist movement to promote the social gospel and how this led to the current state of affairs with globalization and Vatican II.
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