LANATA
“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 myself to recall but that file… Continue Reading
Author: Douglas Craig
25 Points of Climate Change
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 our use of fossil fuels and… Continue Reading
A Hotter World Means More Wildfires in our Future
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 eight people, including three firefighters, burned… Continue Reading
Revolutionary of Love
“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 “Che” Guevara As I write this,… Continue Reading
Why Acceptance ‘Works’ and Blame Doesn’t
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 crossing one another, forming an “X”… Continue Reading
Conscious Conversation: Life After Fire
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 would send in questions of a… Continue Reading
Explaining Myself, Part 2 — (But Then Came Something Worse)
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 in August 2017. Published on July… Continue Reading
After Losing Everything, What Remains?
I live in Redding, Calif., where, along with a thousand of our neighbors, our home was rudely and suddenly consumed by a wall of fearless flame and summarily reduced to rambling heaps of sad ashes and shattered shards of her previous pride, scattered and strewn about carelessly in the solemn space that once comprised our ordered, routine and predictable life; Continue Reading
Explaining Myself
“After a mistake, any mistake, there is a moment that pleads for someone to say it wasn’t. And in its place, explain how it all fits in the grand design. That is what we look for. Forgiveness. Healing. A bit… Continue Reading
Remember the Child
We are all confused in this world. We desperately need certainty – some way to figure out who is right and who is wrong. We want to know who is good and who is bad so we know who to love and who to hate. We sort ourselves into our different teams or tribes and join the endless war where everyone knows their truth and talks and shouts at the same time and no one hears. No one listens. Continue Reading
