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National Park Proposal Will Help With Climate Change

Ancient Forest National Park proposal would join together wild lands of Southern Oregon and Northern California into one management area to help protect old growth forest wildlife through the coming years of climate change.

Stress - Old Age - Loneliness, www.nosle.com
Source: http://nosle.com

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. – Mark Twain

The End of Alone - The Boston Globe
Source: The Boston Globe

With all the technology at our fingertips, are we ever alone? Is it really good for us to be so connected that solitude is nearly impossible?

Being True to Your Inner Nature

Years ago my daughter gave me a book called "365 Tao Daily Meditations" by Deng Ming Dao. I read one page per day and then put it away and forgot about it. On new year's eve I found it again and found an inner beauty I had not seen before.

Obama begins day with moment of solitude, then business
Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama began his first full day in office with a moment of solitude in the Oval Office, reading a note from his predecessor, before making phone calls to Middle East leaders.

Bureau Proposes Opening Up Utah Wilderness to Drilling
Source: t r u t h o u t

The federal Bureau of Land Management is reviving plans to sell oil and gas leases in pristine wilderness areas in eastern Utah that have long been protected from development, according to a notice posted this week on the agency's Web site.

The rewards of the hermit
Source: Guardian Unlimited

For any soul contemplating the hermitic existence, I could do no better than recommend the far north-west of Scotland. Further east the landscape is barren, flattened by fierce Atlantic winds.

What do you like most about the place where you live?

We all tend to take the place where we live for granted. Often we are likely to complain about the services, or lack of them, the things we can't have, or things that annoy us.

Old MacDonald Had a Farmer's Market- total self sufficiency is a noble misguided ideal
Source: incharacter.org

Generations of college freshmen, asked to read Walden, have sputtered with indignation when they learned that Henry David went back to Concord for dinner with his family every week or two.

How to love going to church: a guide for atheists
Source: dangerousintersection.org

For a real treat, sneak into an EMPTY church to meditate.

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