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January 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Your One Life


“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver

Added by Kathie Wallace on January 27, 2010 at 8:51pm — No Comments

Book Review: Life, Money and Illusion by Mike Nickerson

Life, Money and Illusion - Living on earth as if we want to stay

(Second Edition, 2009: ISBN 978-0-86571-659-9)

(Available in the Central Branch of the Vancouver Library at 338.927 N63L)

(Village Vancouver has 3 copies in its informal lending library, and the overdue fines are steep!)



Author: Mike Nickerson



Reviewed by Genevieve Jones



Do you ever get overwhelmed by the state of the world?



I like to be informed, but last… Continue

Added by Randy Chatterjee on January 25, 2010 at 7:14pm — No Comments

The 11 Insights of the Celestine Prophecy



from the books of James Redfield.



Summarized by Kathie Wallace and with excerpts from James Redfield's web site.





1.When a CRITICAL MASS of people see life as a journey of unfolding, mysterious, and exciting synchronicities that lead us forward and ask about the mystery, a series of insights will be revealed that will shift us.

:: Remember to live in the mystery of the synchronicitous world.



2. THE… Continue

Added by Kathie Wallace on January 22, 2010 at 9:58am — No Comments

New World Magnificence



There will be no words in the new world….just magnificence. A Love Song for Trees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yrd5PDyUtE

Added by Kathie Wallace on January 13, 2010 at 11:04am — No Comments

US City Peak Oil Publications

For anyone interested, here are 3 peak oil/climate change response documents created by Portland, Oregon, San Francisco California and Bloomington, Indiana.


Bloomington IN PO.pdf

SF peakoil_final_report.pdf



Portland Climate Action Plan 2009.pdf

Added by Ann Pacey on January 13, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

In the Garden at Pearson Centre with Olga Ruskin



Local writer Kathie Wallace submits this interview with Olga Ruskin at the Pearson Center:

In the Garden, according to Olga Ruskin



This year Jen Rashleigh created a series of table top wheelchair accessible gardens at the Pearson Centre so the residents there could enjoy growing their own food. One of these resident gardeners is Olga Ruskin and this is her story of why she loves gardening:



I garden because I enjoy… Continue

Added by Kathie Wallace on January 8, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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