Koalas and people sharing water

AT 120 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK THAT KOALAS
WERE ASKING PEOPLE FOR WATER. IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.



"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."

Good Tippers Make Better Lovers?

Recommended raw food blog: Sarma
Her blog: http://oneluckyduck.com/sarma

Sample recent entry:

Good Tippers Make Better Lovers?

In the juice bar a while back I’d noticed a piece of paper taped to the tip jar with “Good Tippers Make Better Lovers” written on it. One of the staff in there had written it of course (and I think I know who too). A few in-house managerial opinions were that it was inappropriate for our customers to be faced with such a note. I disagreed. I thought we should let it go. Leave it. I liked it. Why? Because I’m pretty sure it’s generally true. If you think about it, would you want to be in bed with (or otherwise spend quality time with) someone who was generally a stingy tipper? Or someone who freely offers up more of what they have, who likes to see people smile, who thinks about other people and what would make them happy, who likes to know they’re going to make someone’s day a bit better? I say let the stingy tippers read that note, and maybe they’ll stop and think about it.

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Sacred Life, or Commodity?

"In the most general terms, there are but two world views. One can take the view that life is sacred or that life is a commodity. A sacred view of life gives birth to feelings of duty, protection, and love. It emphasizes values of joy, beauty, happiness, and caring and sets up an internal constraint against the exploitation of other individuals, groups, or species. Our word sacred comes from the Latin sacer from the root seen also in sanus, sane. A sacred view of life, then, is a sane view of life. A commodity view is interested in profit, domination, and control. It seeks to "gain the world" and subjugate it to the will of man (and only "the fittest" men at that). At the core of the commodity view of life are two seeds: individual self-interest economics and man against nature technology. Planet Earth is choking on these seeds.



L.G. Boldt