Roberto Kaplan, Doctor of Optometry, Practitioner of the American Holistic Medical Association, and Integrative Medicine, believes his true education began after he began to undo the conditioning to which he was subject in his education. He argues that learning to see has everything to do with freeing a person from his or her conditioning. It [...]
The Society of Humane Friends of Georgia and the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department in Atlanta are collaborating in a new program that matches dogs with no future with jail inmates who provide obedience training and loving care to the animals. This removes the dogs from death row: Sheriff Butch Conway says that normally 7500 dogs [...]
Results of the Election. School district officials are thrilled with the results of the election, apparently, though there is no indication of how teachers and parents responded. Today’s vote – February 8, 2011 – will decide whether a Shelby County property tax will be renewed until 2041, another thirty years. Although the tax renewal has [...]
The idea that brainwaves synchronize with sounds in the environment might not be particularly new, but it seems (to me) that in the last ten years or so (or maybe more) there has been a great deal of interest in auditory phenomena. Of course, music and speech have been around for a while, needless to [...]
Reflecting the teachings of Jesus, feeding the hungry is one of the seven mercies catalogued by the Catholic Church and depicted in many great Renaissance paintings. The City of Houston, specifically the Health and Human Services Department, has shut down an operation that fed the homeless for more than a year – successfully and without [...]
Sharing is happening at phenomenal rates, says Rachel Botsman, the co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption Watch the video of her 15-minute introduction below and you will see what she means. She says that the internet is removing the middleman, and that reputation – as on e-bay feedback – is [...]
Today’s news update indicates the Scott sisters have been freed from Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, where they have been jailed for 16 years, on the condition that Gladys Scott donate a kidney to her sister, Jamie, who is on dialysis. The Myfox Memphis news report did not suggest that the early release had [...]
The following announcement from the New Forest Center for Contemplative Living appeared in my e-mail box. Read on for more details on upcoming classes and events… MEDITATION Sat Morning at 9:00 AM Our meditation classes include a variety of classical approaches, including seated, standing, and moving meditations drawn from Buddhist and Taoist practice, as well [...]
Her great contribution to the field of adoption and its understanding has often been the main focus of attention in looking back on her work. Betty Jean Lifton, known to friends as BJ, died November 19, 2010, leaving, besides her people, some wonderful books in the field of adoption. She is known for having contributed [...]
Calcedeaver Elementary School is located in Mt. Vernon, north of Mobile, Alabama on the edge of the MOWA band of Choctaws reservation, and it features a Choctaw language and culture program. Editor Mark Cherrington of the Cultural Survival Quarterly (summer, 2007) describes in detail how the program saved the school, bringing it from a 68% [...]
Dr. Linda Pearson’s Reading and Math Center offers excellent tutoring services with rapid results that can be clearly documented. Thanks to her trademark methods of reading instruction, which she developed over the course of 40 years in the business of organizing learning centers and teacher training nationwide, she is able to raise the reading level [...]
Do we have any control over our own vision? Is there any way to improve visual acuity? We assume our vision is innate, that we are near-sighted till age 40 and far-sighted after that, that our vision declines with age and that we are helpless to do anything about it. One typically looks forward to [...]