Freedom Friday is back, with Lesson Nine: The wordings and the phrasings of things find their way into normalization. And that shapes how we think. Continue Reading

In this week’s “On Tyranny” chapter, we consider our willingness to stand out, and challenge the status quo. Because tyranny needs quiet conformists. Continue Reading

Sorry to have to postpone the next Freedom Friday essay, but family comes first. Thanks for understanding. Continue Reading

In Freedom Friday, Part 7, we examine how the “regular” police and military can be ensnared in the brutal transition to tyranny. Would we just say no? Continue Reading

n this next “Freedom Friday,” we look at Chapter 6, which examines the rise of paramilitary groups. We dare not ignore their grim historic lessons. Continue Reading

In this week’s “Freedom Fridays,” we examine how tyranny may be hampered when the professionals who must attend to its paperwork and programs refuse. Continue Reading

In today’s Lesson 4, we look at the power of symbols. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Do not look away; do not normalize hatred. Continue Reading

Freedom Fridays continues, examining the dangers of a one-party system. Think we’re not in that kind of danger? Think again. We may already be there. Continue Reading

We begin Lesson 1 of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” today. Because I believe this is why we are here, with our very unique skills, arts, and knowledge. Continue Reading

Given what I know of history, politics, and human nature, as well as my gifts of non-ordinary knowing, I am speaking up. Welcome to Freedom Fridays. Continue Reading

Blessings to America, on her birthday today. May we never, ever forget that our own ancestors were “the huddled masses.” Let welcome and freedom ring. Continue Reading

It’s Independence Day in the U.S.A., and there is lots to think about on this Solar Return. Like how to cherish and protect freedom for ALL our people. Continue Reading

Although I am still out of town (and thanks to EVERYONE for your sweet notes of support and kind wishes!!), I would be remiss not to observe that today we celebrate the birthday of the United States of America. But despite the parties, celebrations, and business as usual, a deepening shadow lies across the heartContinue reading Continue Reading

Today we celebrate the birthday of the United States of America.  But despite the parties, celebrations, and business as usual, a shadow lies across the heart of our declaration that we are a government of, by, and for our actual people.  The Goddess Libertas is our country’s birth mother, our source, and the heart ofContinue reading Continue Reading

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred…I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character… I have aContinue reading Continue Reading

Today is the celebration of the United States of America’s birthday.  I am looking forward to my friend Lynn Haye’s soon-to-be published discussion about this year’s Sibley astrological chart for our country, which she has indicated has many dramatic elements. But in the meantime, with it becoming increasingly clear we are in unprecedented times ofContinue reading Continue Reading

This week, I am featuring a Goddess whose feast day Americans will be celebrating on Wednesday (whether they realize it or not). No one can explain Her better than one of Her most public, devoted Priestesses, Selena Fox. So today, I offer Selena’s own article, almost in its entirety — a loving homage to thisContinue reading Continue Reading

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ~ Roger Nash Baldwin Today we celebrate International Human Rights Day, marking the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is a time to be truly inspired on behalf of peopleContinue reading Continue Reading

Found on the incomparable Joanna Macy’s website.  Blessings! A Warrior Has No Safety Net by  Kirstin George I walk on the precarious edge of the new and the old, wanting to shed the locks and lies of a mechanical world, eager to dive into the smooth cool water of abundant life. ********* I am young,Continue reading Continue Reading