Lean back. Forget about what’s on your mind. Let your mind be free and your heart full. Life is not an ogre that you must run away from. Life stirs your heart. Let life stir your heart clockwise, not counterclockwise.
 
Life may keep you on your toes, yet life succors you. You may often feel that life is after you, and you wish life would mind its own business and be on the sidelines. The truth is that you are on the sidelines. You just haven’t learned this. Although you do set up your life and point it in certain directions, life isn’t for you to boss around. Life is not meant to be a call to arms. Life accommodates you as much as it can. Even when you feel steamrolled or railroaded, life isn’t steamrolling you or railroading you. It’s just that life has a different agenda from yours. In a manner of speaking, you are not meant to take life personally.
 
If you did not take life so personally, you would not be so fraught about life. There doesn’t seem to be any end to what you take on to worry about in life.
 

The Homegrown Revolution has been called a new revolution in urban sustainability, and we feel compelled to agree! Cities are becoming more and more filled with urban blight; the green spaces are fewer and further between, and all the food needs to be trucked in from elsewhere. Which is where urban homesteads are coming into the picture.

The Dervaes family has transformed their home in Pasadena into an urban homestead model. They’re able to harvest three tons of food off their 1/10th acre garden, all while taking advantage of back-to-basics practices, getting off the grid with solar energy and biodiesel.

This is the way of the future, and it’s a revolution I’m happy to be a part of.

We get so caught up in avoiding the things that are bad for us or that we don’t want for ethical reasons that sometimes we forget to praise the good things out there. Below is a list of 400 food companies that have declined using GMO ingredients in their products. They should be rewarded with our business for opting not to use frankenfoods.

365

479 Degrees

A. Vogel

Adams Vegetable Oils

Agrana

Agricor Inc.

Ah!Laska

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And not the kind of drug you’d probably truly enjoy. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Terence McKenna talk about social issues and our culture as a whole. In this video, McKenna talks about television, and how your TV communicates mass-violence and brainwashing materials 24/7.

The average American now watches TV about as much as they work; 40 hours a week. That’s 8 hours of television, 5 days a week. Isn’t that just insane? Going out into the world and seeing nature, new people, and new places is better than any television show you’ll ever watch...

As you probably know, yesterday we had several young people wounded in a senseless act of violence less than 30 miles from where I live. I asked Creator for some words of solace and this is what I received. I have been asked to dedicate this Writing in memory of those who lost their lives and to those that will be forever marked by the experience.

When you become overwhelmed by the negative actions, thoughts and words of your Earth plane existence, please remember this; for every one of those negative things, The Universe sends out an infinite number of positive ones. It may not seem like it, but the balance has always been heavily weighed in your favor. The only thing that is asked of you in return for this wonderful gift is to send, think, feel and be love. ~ Creator

This video highlights just how gross some processed foods can be. AgileHProducts, a YouTube user with many different time lapse videos, decided to see if a twinkie would rot in the same way as a tomato. The results probably won’t shock you.

After 25 days, the tomato is withered and rotten, while the twinkie is still looking rather spry. The longevity of the twinkie can probably be attributed to the lack of dairy products in it. In addition, professor Roger Bennati of George Stevens Academy decided to put a twinkie in a glass box back in 1976.

And there it is, still today, still as much of a twinkie as it’s ever been. What a gross food...