Serendipities Of A Writer's Life

Here’s a shocking report on AFP that speaks for itself.:

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Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear in 40 Years: UN
By AFP
May 17, 2010 “AFP” — NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces [...]

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Here’s a headline and news story that caught my attention – it was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which is not usaually a source of alarmist environmental doom.   The story speaks for itself.  The notion that so much life on earth might be wiped so that humans can do whatever we want surely puts [...]

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Even when “Adventure” is our middle name, we often shrink from making too drastic decisions that would really cut our lives adrift from the sameness and security that we also like to enjoy day to day.  And how can anyone just “sail away” when they have children and want to give them the best of [...]

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It’s with considerable relief that I’ve received comments on my recent post Goodbye mother Ganges.  I long delayed even publishing the post because to some, who had seen a draft, it seemed unnecessarily pessimistic.  Who wants to hear a foreigner being critical of India’s headlong rush to consumerism?  However, in the end, I decided it [...]

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Unless more rain falls, India’s ambition of becoming a vast consumer society is an impossible dream from which the vast majority will be excluded because of water shortages.

In the headlong rush to become consumers, few people inside India or outside are asking whether it is even possible for more than one billion people to [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  I’ve written two previous posts about food and some of the alarming aspects of what’s on our plates, how it got there and what it’s doing to the land, the people, the animals and society.
I am very grateful to my friend Professor Magdalena Krondl, Professor [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago.  What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.”  Not so very different, I would argue.
So what do you [...]

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Here we are in the middle of one of the major shopping periods – the January sales – in many parts of the world. So maybe it might be useful to count all our belongings.
What really belongs to us?  How much of our “stuff” is really ours.

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