Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.
Health & Happiness
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
A young native writer’s ambush interview with Sherman Alexie throws her into a whirlpool of unanswerable questions about tribal loyalty, silence, and healing.
Professor Tom Murphy wanted his students to reconnect with nature. Now, they work beside farmers, fishermen, wastewater technicians, environmental groups, and Native American leaders through an award-winning service learning program.
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
What I learned about happiness during my mom's last days with cancer.
A better economy doesn't necessarily mean a happier country.
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
With increasing numbers of people unable to afford health care, community practitioners are making acupuncture accessible to everyone. Pamela O'Malley Change invites us to "Imagine acupuncture being the medicine everyone
uses and values."
The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic provides all-around care including alternative treatments for low-income women diagnosed with cancer.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
The costs of health care and prescriptions in
the U.S. are graphically compared against the rest of the
world. Why do U.S. drugs cost more?
Being poor may be as great a risk factor in personal health as the consumption of cigarettes or junk food.
The United States pays far more than Canada per capita for its health care services, yet Canadians get better care, according to various experts.
Americans spend the most, get the least, and have no health care security. The solution is not that difficult.
The work of peace building in South Africa and elsewhere is largely a rehumanizing process, calming fears by destroying dehumanizing stereotypes.
Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case,
95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and
practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in
recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our
origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and
his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit
that Jesus’ presence and teaching unleashed.
An interview with Matthew Fox. Organized
religion needs to get its act together and bring in the
feminine, the widom of Sophia. See also his 95
theses.
What would you ask of the people who will care for you when you are unable to care for yourself?
This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
It turns out there is a reason humans live decades after our reproductive years end, a reason obscured by reference to "the golden years" and endless products designed to keep us young. The truth is we need our elders to be elders.
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
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