You know, truth has been in short supply in the American “debate” over health care reform. Today now everyone is quoting the outgoing and incoming presidents of the Canadian Medical Association using the word “implode” to describe our system. So here is my last input to the American debate, as if facts and truth matter. Read the speeches of the CMA Presidents. It is true that they are shilling for more private care, to make more money, have more opportunity and maybe some of them even believe that patients will be better served by choice. But nowhere do they say …
Cleaning my plate: Bella Gaia, a poetic view of earth from space. Donella Meadows‘ classic piece on places to intervene in a system. Nancy White on her software and web apps set up. True North Records has a great podcast of contemporary Canadian singer/songwriters. Common Dreams reports on Starbucks’ intention to fool us all. Beware of the Blog posts something funny and absurd. Ria Baeck tweets a Bodhisattva on the subway.
I have updated my music pages and finally migrated them here. Go visit if you want to learn about my musical history, watch some videos and listen to a few tracks and sound samples from my musical career.
Goodness that came my way this past week: Norma Flores, a participant on our Food and Society Conference core team this year, has a blog about her work for farmworker justice. Brad Ovenell-Carter and the void of voids. Dave Pollard shares a travelouge from Joanna Macy in the Tar Sands Also from Dave, The Transition Initiative. Dojo Rat on his practice over the next 50 years.
This story about Britain’s last WW1 soldier has a key them: reconciliation is possible: To the strains of the “Last Post,” and in the presence of soldiers from armies that had fought as both friend and foe, the funeral was held here Thursday for Harry Patch, the last British survivor of World War I living in this country. Pallbearers carried the coffin of Harry Patch from Wells Cathedral on Thursday in Wells, England. Born in June 1898, Mr. Patch died last month at the age of 111 at a nursing home in this southwestern cathedral city, where thousands of …