All too often today, at least in the United States, “spirituality” is juxtaposed to “religion” as an alternative. “Spiritual but not religious” has become a cliché. It often becomes individualist, self-serving, and separated from concerns for justice and peace in the public world.

In a time of global crisis we need leaders who care about the whole world and think in terms of what is good for the whole. We need world loyalty.

In the Cartesian view, to attribute feelings to these animals was to commit the “pathetic fallacy.” Even today, the industrial production of meat takes no account of any subjective experience on the part of cows, pigs, and chickens.

Whitehead is distinctive, if not unique, in making ecological relations primary in the interpretation of reality.

Los Angeles “has become, of all things, a leader in sustainable water management…”

There’s a message of hope embedded here.

“It seems that the art takes the threat out, becomes more humanistic, more…it’s more questioning…”

To be crazy is definitely not to be stupid. In many ways we have been collectively brilliant. But brilliant people can be crazy.

Does hard-fought justice at the individual level help lay the groundwork for LGBTQ involvement on behalf of the Earth?

“Follow the Leaders.” Berlin, Germany 2011. By Isaac Cordal.

Whom will it change, haunt, affect?

“The Diatomist,” a new film by Matthew Killip. Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.