For the first time since 1952, cheetahs will soon roam wild in India once again. Eight of the big cats, famed for reaching speeds of 70 mph without breaking a sweat, are set to arrive in August from Namibia, to make their home at Kuno-Palpur National Park. A combination of hunting, habitat loss and food scarcity led to the cheetah’s extinction in India, but thankfully, now … [Read more...]
I was listening to a talk by evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest recently, when he said something that made me sit up and take notice. He was discussing his natal North Node in Taurus in the sixth house. Despite being in his early 70s, the world-renowned author admitted that until recently, he hadn’t had a medical checkup in 14 years. He prefers to spend time, he said, in … [Read more...]
Deborah Kushner has been arrested three times for acts of civil disobedience related to gas pipeline construction and permitting. In one of those incidents (pictured below), the retired social worker chained her rocking chair to an old police cruiser painted with attention-grabbing slogans that made folks take notice! Mild-mannered Kushner, 67, isn’t your typical activist. … [Read more...]
One spring night in 1968, 21-year-old Patti Smith went with some friends to see The Doors live at the Fillmore East in New York City. A recent college drop-out, Smith was working in a bookstore and wondering what to do with the rest of her life. Little did she know that an unexpected vision of her future was about be catalyzed. As she later wrote in her memoirs: “I had a … [Read more...]
When Michael Meade was twenty years old, he was thrown into solitary confinement in a military prison for refusing to go to Vietnam. “I wasn’t a very good prisoner,” he explained in a recent talk on Hope and Imagination in Hard Times. “I wouldn’t follow the rules.” So he ended up stuck in almost complete darkness in a very small cell with little food and no human contact, for … [Read more...]
