The Long Road to Freedom: Championing a New Life for Captive Chimpanzees
By Debra Rosenman
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” — Robert Kennedy
Imagine how life on Earth would be if we championed every species of animal. . .
Imagine recognizing all beings as part of God’s astonishing tapestry. . .
Imagine responding to life with infinite reverence and reciprocity. . .
EVERY ANIMAL ON OUR PLANET has an extraordinary story to tell. I speak for the captive chimpanzees and other animals who are suffering and need a voice in today’s world. Read more 
Brad Wilson: A Photographer’s View Looking Into the Eyes of Nature
By Gershon Siegel
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
WHILE NO ONE KNOWS when the saying “one picture is worth a thousand words” was coined, it’s safe to say it happened before 1826. That’s the year the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is credited with producing the first permanent photograph. Soon after that, the value-ratio of pictures to words inflated well beyond a mere thousand to one.
The fledgling advertising industry at the turn of the 20th century, assigned to transform a culture of producers and savers into a society of consumers and debt slaves, quickly realized photography’s ability to deliver a powerful, evocative message in just an instant. In 1920, less than 15 percent of illustrated advertisements in mass-circulated magazines employed photographs. After just a decade, that figure had risen to almost 80 percent. Read more
SF oneheart / May 15 to June 15. Vol. 3, No. 2. / Brad Wilson
Looking into the Eyes of Nature
Our Last Issue. Time for Change.
Strategic Patience
By Robert Genn
“STRATEGIC PATIENCE” is popular jargon these days. It’s the strategy of letting time take care of at least part of the process. It precludes running off willy-nilly in a knee-jerk reaction — a reaction that often does more harm than good. Artists should at least consider the system.
Half-finished paintings left deserted and grumbling in studio corners are often busy mending themselves. Pulled into the light, they re-boot the artist’s neural pathways. Solutions are often clearer, easier, and less painful than originally thought. Read more
Gardening? There’s an App for That
A Crop of Mobile Apps and Online Resources for the Technology-Happy Gardener
SPOILER ALERT: If you are a gardener who treasures your time in the garden partly because it involves no technology, read no further.
It used to be that technological advances in the garden were focused on timers for drip irrigation or motion-sensitive patio lights. These days, gardening technology is about mobile software applications for your smart-phone and tablet, and tons of available downloads for them and your desktop. Read more
Alan Hutner Interviews Brad Blanton: The Center for Radical Honesty
BRAD BLANTON IS A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, psychotherapist, seminar leader-trainer, and founder of The Center for Radical Honesty. His first book, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth, published in the mid-nineties, was translated into nine languages. In this interview, Brad discusses his latest book, Some New Kind of Trailer Trash: The Story of an Outsider’s Inside View of the Revolution of Consciousness. I have often referred to Brad as The Truth Doctor, a nickname with growing traction. This most recent of Brad’s writings is a self-imposed expose in the name of authenticity. As noted author Gay Hendricks says, “Read this book, and find out how you, too, can become an enlightened hillbilly spiritually-evolved atheist pure-truth bullshit artist who is focused night and day on waking himself and the rest of us up from the Big Trance.” Read more
Big and Small
By Susie Arnett
I HAVE NOTICED SOMETHING about myself. Whenever I feel really big and powerful and confident, this feeling changes after a few hours and I begin to judge myself. This pattern was particularly clear over a recent weekend.
I attended the Tadasana Festival, an urban yoga and music festival in Los Angeles, during which I practiced four to six hours of yoga per day. Although I used to have a strong yoga practice, when I had children nine years ago it fell by the wayside. I had barely taken a class over the last decade. During the weekend festival, though, I got my yoga back. It changed my body and my mind. The festival reminded me how yoga can be a powerful technology to shift consciousness. Read more
Mound-builders of the Ancient Southeastern Woodlands
Opening Reception May 25
Year of the Dragon, Linda Lomahaftewa, monotype, 2012
VISIT THIS TWO-PERSON art exhibit inspired by a journey to explore the ancient Native American mounds of the Southeast United States. Linda Lomahaftewa (Choctaw-Hopi) and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) display their prints, paintings, photography, and mixed media inspired by the sites. Read more
Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary: Open House Celebrates Senior Animals
If you love old dogs, horses, and poultry, then come celebrate senior animals at Kindred Spirit Animal Sanctuary’s Spring Open House.
Dogs like Geoffrey, a sweet 12- or 13-year-old Newfie-mix, will meet you at the gate with wagging tails. Geoffrey and his friends — many senior dogs, three horses, and a wide variety of poultry — are celebrating their collective birthdays during the Open House. Visitors are invited to tour the peaceful, serene, eco-friendly grounds, meet all of the senior dogs, and learn about the wellness programs that help keep them happy and healthy. Read more
Southwest Barter Club
When the economy is in a slump, business owners must find new ways to manage their cash flow and reach customers. Members of the Southwest Barter Club have found a different currency and a different way to do business through a tried and true method – bartering.
“We are not letting this weak cash economy take the joy out of our lives,” says Shirley Schaan, owner and founder of Southwest Barter Club. “My vision for the club is to have a network of business owners enjoying new-found ways to enrich their lives by using the age-old bartering system.” Read more
