Making Life Simple: An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz

Originally published in Pure Inspiration, Summer 2007

 

Since the 1980s, Ruiz has dedicated himself to imparting his wisdom to students around the world, a modern-day nagual guiding people to personal freedom by sharing his ancient Toltec knowledge.  (See pdf here)

 

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Valarie James and the Las Madres Project

Originally published in Sculptural Pursuit, Winter 2007

 

Valarie James’ Web site: lasmadresproject.org

 

A diaper bag stuffed with infant’s clothing and a birth certificate broke Valarie James’s heart. That break  moved her to create a new sculpture technique that reveals the heart of the migrant experience.

 

James, a sculptor and arts educator, often walks  her dogs in the desert around her home in Amado, Arizona, an area near the U.S.-Mexico border  that has been a migrant path for centuries. She sometimes meets undocumented immigrants in  heart-wrenching encounters during which she can  do little except offer food and water to the frightened, exhausted travelers. More often, she comes across items they have left behind in the unforgiving desert. One day in 2004, she found the cast-off diaper bag on the ground, surrounded by the mother’s scattered clothing. Who were this woman and her child? she wondered. What happened to them? These thoughts haunted her, creating “a question mark in the sand,” she says.  She carried her poignant treasure back home. (See pdf here)

 

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Reporting Reality: An Interview with Lynne McTaggart

Originally published in Science Of Mind, November 2007

 

Lynne McTaggart’s Web site: IntentionExperiment.com

 

“Change your thinking, change your life.”  While this phrase serves as a core truth of Science Of Mind, physical science also seems to be proving the truth of this statement through a wide range of rigorous experiments being conducted around the world. The demonstrate how we truly do create our world, every second, every day, solely by our thoughts. (See pdf here)

 

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The following articles were published in NOAA: Celebrating 200 years of Science, Service, and Stewardship from Faircount Media Group

 

NOAA Watches Weather, Water, and Climate

 

When Congress created the first national weather service in 1870, the agency was assigned to the Department of War. Only people accustomed to military discipline, congress believed would be able to provide the necessary information in a prompt, ongoing, reliable manor. (See pdf here)

 

Monitoring Our Changing Climate

 

Over the millennia of Earth’s history, natural causes have often shifted the planet’s climate, sometimes rather rapidly. Ice ages, wobbles in solar radiation, and massive volcanic eruptions are some of the culprits. Today, however, human influences are undeniably transforming climate in ways not easily or quickly reversed. (See pdf here)

 

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center

 

As a hurricane barreled toward Galveston, Texas, in September 1900, local U.S. Weather Bureau forecasters closely monitored the threatening weather using the best tools available -- experienced observation of skies and tides, barometers and anemometers... Eight thousand people died, making this the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. (See pdf here)