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Be-ing Kind
At the Tucson Festival of Books, community organizations of all kinds shared the white tents populating the University of Arizona's...
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Mar 172 min read
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Beyond Home
David Wright Faladè and his new novel. Flying off to Arizona tomorrow for the Tucson Festival of Books is a big deal for me. But one of...
sibodonkey
Mar 102 min read
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Not so Impossible
“Impossible” was also kind of an ironic way of thumbing our nose at the doubters. These are words from Pat Brown, founder of Impossible...
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Mar 21 min read
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Wild Hart
Naomi Owens-Beek, Saulteau First Nation Powerful storytelling in a visual format, standing up for mountain caribou comes alive in the...
sibodonkey
Feb 181 min read
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Shifting tones
from decolonial atlas When harm is coming our way, we have to be a protective force, in our warrior stance, for people and planet....
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Feb 102 min read
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Engage
Jenny O'Connell Whether we tend to hide away from minus twenty Fahrenheit outdoors or bolt as political stews boil over and douse the gas...
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Feb 52 min read
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Planetary Words
In a context of ever-present change, our planet’s ongoing experiments with Life have been “a big, joyful party”* of diverse approaches to...
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Jan 222 min read
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Simple as a Seed
Seed Catalogs Are Arriving As Snow Sifts Down Daily In my 50's before heading to graduate school, my choice was weighted toward my home...
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Jan 42 min read
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Double-Up
Play Twice as Hard! Everything is better when shared, right? Writers are urged to double up the ways each word or image can act in a...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Winter Solstice
My parents celebrating My parents got married on the year's longest night, and once we were old enough to realize what the extra hours in...
sibodonkey
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Imagine
For National Horse Day, the not-quite-300 year old United States salutes an over 30-THOUSAND year old relationship between people and...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Incalculable
A small calico cat lived at their vet's in a carrier, her front legs just nubbins. She didn't fare well among rowdier residents. My...
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Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Passion into Purpose
Sometimes stepping away from current events is the healthiest offering we can make to people around us, to ourselves, and to the world....
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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No CATaclysms
Who is immune to the ratcheting up of anxiety and distress, the societal focus on impending CATaclysms? With great good fortune, cats...
sibodonkey
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Public Art Signals Shifting Landscape
Jackson Hole Public Art’s final installations in the Land Signals series will be unveiled at the end of this month at the Greater...
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Oct 8, 20242 min read
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Rabbit, Rabbit
For this year’s International Rabbit Day (last Saturday in September), my research into the strange tradition of earning good luck by...
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Sep 30, 20242 min read
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Upstream Actions
Despite road construction, I easily found the bold sunrise-orange awnings at Best Friends’ Lifesaving Center in Salt Lake City. The...
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Sep 26, 20242 min read
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Connecting with Kin
Last year CNN’s Hero of the Year award went to Dr. Kwane Stewart, founder of Project Street Vet, and yes, the big-hearted guy split the...
sibodonkey
Sep 17, 20242 min read
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Planetary Citizenship
Intended as a “beachy” summer entertainment, Laura Pritchett’s hot newest novel THREE KEYS brings readers along on a mischievous midlife...
sibodonkey
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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for National Dog Day
People who work with animal welfare organizations typically have more than a job—they live with a passion that can extend well beyond...
sibodonkey
Aug 26, 20242 min read
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