About 10 or 12 years ago, my husband and I were coming home from a drive up Mt. Lemmon, when suddenly he said to me, “You’d be a great painter!” I was dumbfounded. “Why on earth would you think that?” I asked. “It’s the way you respond to nature…to colors…to light and shadows.” As I recall, I simply snorted and changed the subject. Before hubby and I met, he had been an occasional painter and he still had a whole … Read entire article »

In modern life there are few examples of ‘solidarity’ in the everyday. We all lead such separate lives and society is set up to make us fight for survival on a daily basis. So we get too busy or pre-occupied with our own lives to notice, or have time for, those around us. However there seems to be a wonderful opportunity to create a kind of Cyber-solidarity with those we meet online. Gone … Read entire article »

Since about 2003 or 2004 I’ve been playing guitar. My whole life before that I had nothing to do with musical instruments or playing music. I was always more of an athletic type. Never really had any focus on exactly what it was I wanted to be. Closest I ever came to a guitar was when my uncle Billy lived next door. He had a Marshall double stack and a bunch of electric guitars. He … Read entire article »

DreamingBear Baraka Kanaan is an internationally renowned award-winning author of eight books, transformational spoken word artist, and eco-peace advocate who elegantly blends quantum understandings of the universe with inner expressions of the heart. He is the founder of The Lovevolution Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering personal and universal transformation through ‘edutainment’ (making learning fun) & universal inspiration. “I have devoted my life’s artistry to cultivating a living language of love spells for the … Read entire article »