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“Whether this is the first day of the Apocalypse or the first day of the Golden Age, the work remains the same… to love each other and ease as much suffering as possible.”

— Ram Dass
January 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What I’m starting to understand, finally, is that the point isn’t to help the people who know how best to ask for help. It’s to be helpful.”
- Catherine Newman
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
- Elie Wiesel
January 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“The very weaknesses of human nature are what make it so important that we keep a constantly watchful eye on our government, and that in turn our government watches us with equal care.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
January 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Leana
After Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other U.S. climate funders announced that they will “ensure the United States meets its global climate obligations.”

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.
www.reuters.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.”
- John McPhee, Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
January 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Cold sunny January days are a rare treat and clear the doom and gloom of our political reality from my mind for a brief moment. Half-frozen creek? The peace lasts most of the day!
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM