They’re giving away Michelin stars like a bowl of air puff mints on the way out the door. Gourmet or gourmand more is not better folks. If it were so easy to attain that star what’s the point of jostling for one? …

The world can blame its colonizing empires for anti-homosexuality laws throughout colonies, particularly in the 19th century when the British Empire was at its peak. As of 2018, more than half of the 71 countries that criminalized homosexuality were former British colonies or protectorates. The decolonization of how gender and…

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~ Milan Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) A central theme for 93 year old Milan Kundera is The Power of Forgetting, or historical amnesia — could not be more relevant given our current state of…

While the world is busy spinning all to dust I sit still and quiet at home. Shifting consciousness — mine and the planet’s. Me to you. You to me. We to tree. Plant Medicine. Buried and borrowing deep roots into the rich dark soil of the land — into the…

I struggle with great difficulty not to lash out in rabid frustration over the shameless lies of continued Marcos propaganda. Today’s post is about Imee Marcos — big sister and ate to Bongbong Marcos. Specifically her latest blatant branding of Nutribuns distributed at a recent Assistance to Individuals in Crisis…

What is belief but faith lived and experienced. A testament to what we believe. What we feel we are worthy of in this world. Ages ago at university we had a nearby watershed we could easily escape to. Minutes away from campus and an overcrowded metropolis we are under cavernous…

Tara, whose name means star or she who ferries across, is a Bodhisattva of compassion. In Tibetan, Tara is known as Dölma (Sgrol-ma), or She Who Saves. In particular she represents compassion in action — as she steps from her lotus throne to help sentient beings. Tara is the Mother…

As we celebrate and honor those who have died in service of the United States of America — our nation and its values — we are reminded that freedom and peace are the end goal here. Not war which we pray will be outlawed and made obsolete. We are eternally…

We recently commemorated the 125th death anniversary of a fallen hero. Betrayed and sold out by his fellow guerillas in the fight to birth a new nation. Out of the ashes of the Spanish American war in the Philippines much is left devastated and traumatized. The tragedy of a multi…