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HRM Prince Charles of Wales gave an interview on his new book entitled, “Harmony,” considered impressive in many ways. The book descriptions, “For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with nature. In the vein of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Van Jones’ “Green Collar…

Poverty income is at an unbelievable $25,000 a year. For most of us, income is not even half of poverty income, but somewhere around the $10,000 a year mark. Groceries have risen by 100% [i]utilities, unbelievably high especially for those in the poverty bracket. Single parents need work 2-3 jobs to feed, clothe, and put a roof over their children. Living has taken on a reduced tone except for…

Ronnie Lee Gardner murdered a man in 1985 while trying to escape before his hearing in an earlier murder, was put to death by a firing squad in June. 2010. Today, the legislature is deciding whether to implement the firing squad as the means of ending lives since the company that makes the death injection potion through does not support the death penalty.

While the choice to commit murder is…

The celebration of the New Year on January 1 is a relatively new phenomenon. The earliest recording of a New Year celebration believed to have its beginnings in Mesopotamia, ca. 2000 B.C. celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March. Varieties of other dates tied to the seasons by various ancient cultures as well. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year…

This event occurs on the 21st, Mountain Standard Time. The winter solsticefor the northern hemisphere occurs when the Sun is at its lowest point in the sky around noon. It is about 23.5 degrees south of the celestial equator. The Sun rises its farthest south of east and sets its farthest south of west. Daytime is near its shortest and nighttime near its longest. Since ancient times, people have…

Jane looked pensively at the brightest ornament on the newly decorated tree. Underneath, one beautifully wrapped gift stood alone, a commentary on Jane’s life the past year. After seven years of marriage, the house was as empty as her heart. Jack lie upstairs with his back firmly away, always away from her—the detachment, palpable.

Nothing had gone as planned. Jane’s profession that was…

FIRST FRUITS CELEBRATION

 From December 26 to January 1, millions of people will celebrate Kwanzaa around the world. This is a celebration of the “First Fruits of the Harvest” which began in the mid-sixties when America was experiencing the civil rights movement.

In 1966, a young visionary living on the west coast who was also the founder and chair of the Black Nationalist Organization created…

There is much brouhaha regarding marijuana busts with huge fields of marijuana plants being torn down. It raises the ongoing question to legalize marijuana, or let the outlaws continue growing and processing (poor) marijuana for a ton of cash, while cutting the second-rate plant with additives, including methadone, and assorted dangerous fillers. Marijuana is much different now than in the 60’s,…