“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” H.G. Wells...
Author: Douglas Craig
“What is is what’s happening before you have a thought about it. Suffering occurs when you believe in a thought that is at odds with what is, what was, or what may be.” Adyashanti...
It was about two weeks after the Carr Fire. Maybe three. We met in a church. The room was full. We came – my wife and I – with the expectation that this would be a chance to heal from the mind-numbing horror that our daily life had become since the inferno had vaporized our home and all it contained and left a smoldering pile of ash, rack and ruin.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” William Blake Like so many of my thoughts, I have no clue where it came from. I’ve asked...
1) The prevailing view or consensus on climate change within the worldwide scientific community is that our climate is warming. https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ 2) Humans are seen as the principle cause of climate warming, primarily through...
For most of us in the North State, 2018 will be remembered as the year of multiple, devastating wildfires. First it was the Carr Fire, which destroyed over a thousand homes in Redding, killed...
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” Ernesto...
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” — Eckhart Tolle In the above diagram, we see two arrows...
For a few years now, Doni and I have been talking about doing something different on a news Café. One of the ideas that bounced between us was a Dear Abby column where readers...
Preface: In what seems like a lifetime ago, A News Café published part one of a piece I wrote titled “Explaining Myself,” in which I described a series of self-inflicted mishaps that I endured...
