The final Friday of the month means it’s time for We Are the World Blogest, a day for promoting positive news. It delights me to participate as an agent of pronoia highlighting feel-good news stories for us all to celebrate. Co-hosting the project this month are: Shilpa Garg, Inderpreet Kaur Uppal, Peter Nena, Andrea Michaels. Damyanti […]
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Archive for Elephants
Today, August 12 is World Elephant Day, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. There are so many factors endangering the elephant populations, including habitat loss due primarily to deforestation; human-elephant conflict because elephants now must share habitat with humans; and mistreatment in captivity. But by far the greatest danger is due […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with exploring the concepts of pronoia (the belief that the universe is conspiring to shower us with blessings), quiety (serenity) and peace -all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply delightful-to-me words. C is for… Cloudland. This gentle word is defined as 1) the […]
Continue reading »Today is World Elephant Day and “I” day on my random musing abecedarium, so quite naturally I’d like to talk about ivory. World Elephant Day was enacted by The Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in 2012, to bring attention and awareness to the extinction plight of both the Asian and African elephants. The Elephant Reintroduction Foundation works […]
Continue reading »is for elephant, of the exuberant kind Oh the winter weariness. The frigid temps break only long enough to dump tons more snow and then plunge back into the realm of crazy coldness. We’re running out of places to shovel the snow, and my husband is still recovering from […]
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ByHappy Earth Day! I am not afraid of love or its consequences of light. ~ Joy Harjo Today I’m sending love letters. The first one of course I’m sending out to Earth, joining in the celebration honoring her. I confess I don’t quite understand those who lean into the desire or spiritual understanding that being here […]
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ByGanesh, the elephant-headed Hindu god of wisdom, prudence, and salvation, is also known as The Lord of Obstacles. It is believed that since he can either create or remove obstacles, he must be acknowledged before beginning any new enterprise. Elephants are dear to me, and there definitely seems an element of connection to ancient wisdom. […]
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