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The Great Turning*



THE GREAT TURNING*



You’ve asked me to tell you of the Great Turning, of how we saved the

world from disaster. The answer is both simple and complex:



We turned.



For hundreds of years we had turned

away as life on earth grew more precarious.

We turned away from the homeless men on the streets, the stench from

the river, the children…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on February 23, 2010 at 1:05pm — No Comments

The Omo People

If... If we choose, Avatar is here right now. Every single one of us is 100% full potential: magnificence being
magnificent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLR8wEvRfQ


Added by Kathie Wallace on February 8, 2010 at 7:20pm — No Comments

Sending out an SOS

...and in our interconnected world-brave woman sending out an SOS-U Tube forced to remove it-help this go viral http://ow.ly/14ApN #VO2010 Regrets re misinformation-interesting though!-avatar indeed….Seems like someone had some fun with Patricia……

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Added by Kathie Wallace on February 6, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Our Canadian Identity



Our Canadian Identity

By Kathie Wallace



In 1972, when Paul Henderson became the “Magic Man” in hockey for Canada, I and millions of Canadians stopped our lives to listen breathlessly as we won the Summit Series over the Russians.



The score was tied 5-5 and the series was also tied. With 34 seconds left in the game, Henderson scored to win for Canada. It was called “the goal heard around the world”.

I will always… Continue

Added by Kathie Wallace on February 4, 2010 at 10:06am — No Comments

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

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

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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