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July 2009

Today I signed a budget that confronts the worst global and national economic crisis in generations. The choices were not easy, but in the end, the budget I signed today protects middle class families, encourages business growth and upholds our core commitments to education, health care and public safety. more...

A Message for Fathers, and Families...

By Shelly Baron with Steve Buelow

America is a GREAT country.

Regardless of your political persuasion, or your views on the economy… whether you believe taxes are too high for some, or too low for others… no matter how you’re feeling about the NEXT industry bailout… it is nice to know that the powers that be have guaranteed at least one recession-proof business. more...

Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health!

By Susan Weed

An anti-cancer lifestyle is not a rigid set of rules to follow, but a safe space to be filled with your favorite ways of nourishing health and discouraging cancer. Since cancer thrives in a too-ordered situation, relax and let chaos give a hand now and then in the execution of your plan. I include all the following elements in my anti-cancer lifestyle. Were I to be diagnosed with cancer, I would continue to do these things in addition to any other remedies I might choose. more...

If Your Healing Doesn’t Follow the Law of Cure, Are You Truly Healing?

By Ronda Behnke ND, RN

Had you been healthy in the past then suddenly developed a rash? After treating it, did it go away but another health condition appeared, perhaps deeper within the body, such as digestive upsets? And later did you develop something worse like asthma or heart disease?

Has treatment of these ailments caused them to go away and never come back? more...

Soul and Power Retrieval

By Debbie Chinana

I was spiraling down and down. My Body as light as a feather, my consciousness inquiring and curious. Eagle wings holding me in delicious softness. My ‘purpose’ to find lost Soul Parts for a client of mine who was feeling depressed/lost/fragmented/disconnected. more...

The Forced Medicating of America

By Paul M. Theys

How many medical drugs do you take each day? If you take none, you are one of the lucky few! But if several new bills are passed into law, you will be taking more drugs than you may care to take or you could spend a few nights in jail. more...

The Flower of Awakening

By Nirmala

Consider the miracle of a flower. What is it that causes a plant to flower? Does sunshine cause a plant to flower? Does lots of water? Or is it good soil? Maybe all of these together? Or is there really something more subtle in the nature of the flower itself that causes it to flower? Is it something in the DNA of the plant? Does that mean the whole process of evolution over eons of time is involved? What other factors might cause the flowering? Does gravity play a part? The season and the temperature? The quality of the light? (Some plants will not flower under glass or artificial light.) What about animals that eat the fruit and spread the plant? Or the birds or bees that pollinate the flower? Do they cause the subsequent flowering of the newly established plants? Are there even subtler influences? What about presence and love? The intention and attention of a gardener? And is the existence of the world of form itself necessary for a plant to flower? And what about consciousness? Is there an ultimate force that directs the creation and unfolding of all expressions of form that is behind the appearance of a rose or a daisy? more...

Living In Joy

By Suzanne Roloff

Our lives are meant to be filled with happiness and joy…this is our birthright; for all of us. Joy and happiness are meant to be experienced now. Make a conscious choice to start and end your day with joy to start with. Most of us are so busy and thinking of so many things not of joy and worrying about things that never happen everyday that we completely miss out on the joy and happiness in our life. Take more of those moments filled with joy and happiness; seize them, look for them, expect them, and I guarantee you, you will start to live a joy filled life. You will come to expect it and you will find it in your everyday experiences without looking for it. more...

June 2009

An excerpt from Paul Hawken's 2009 commencement address at the University of Portland:

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there.

But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation – but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. more...

Building Better Bones

By Susan S. Weed

"It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved," counsels Grandmother Growth. "You must open to your very marrow for this transformation. No cell is to remain untouched. You are to open more than you ever dreamed you could open, more than you have opened in birth or in passion. You open now to the breath of mortality as it plays the bone flute of your being. What can you do but dance to the haunting melody, develop a passion for an elegant posture and a long stride? more...

May 2009

Tips for teaching your kids about money

Courtesy Kevin Smith

Among the many responsibilities of adulthood, managing personal finances is one of the most important skills you can learn. Unfortunately, many of us have had to learn this lesson the hard way, without any formal education on the subject. If you want to help give your kids a head start on the road to financial independence and success, there are many simple tips you can use to get them started early. more...

Feeling Frisky?

Herbs for fertility

c. 1999 by Susan S. Weed

For thousands of years knowledge of the herbs and wild plants that could increase fertility were the secrets of the village wise women. But after the holocaust against European Wise Women (the "burning times") and the virtual extermination of Native American medicine women, this knowledge virtually disappeared. In fact, many people erroneously believe that "primitive people" had no means of controlling the likelihood of pregnancy. Nothing could be further from the truth. more...

Rosen Movement invites the body to find ease

By Louisa Castner

Where can you spend an hour moving your body with gentle awareness to fun and inspiring music in the company of others? At a Rosen Movement class! Described as a “work in” rather than a workout, Rosen Movement invites a person to notice how moving feels from the inside out. more...

The Worlds Most Powerful Antioxidant is Not in a Berry, a Fruit or a Drink…It’s in Your Body!

Excerpt from GLUTATHIONE Your Best Defense Against Aging, Cellular Damage and Disease by Dr Robert H. Keller, MD, MS, FACP, AAHIVS – Director of Medicine & Research/KBK Institute of Advanced Medicine, Published 2008

Its called Glutathione or GSH and every cell in your body requires an adequate supply to function and to stay healthy. It’s your body's super defender against illness, infection, toxins, and disease. GSH is critical to optimum brain function, and is also your body's first line of defense against diseases of aging and the harmful affects of stress and overexertion. more...