Although I feel it’s my duty to write a celebration of mothers on Mother’s Day, every time I think about what I might write for this post, all that comes up in my mind is a kind of lament. Becoming a mother was definitely the best thing I’ve done in my life. When I look [...]
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Celebrating the DIY Mom on Mother’s Day
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 13, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/celebrating-the-diy-mom-on-mothers-day/
Grassroots heroism: what we need now
The image that stays with me most from the blockbuster superhero action film The Avengers is not the thrilling climax when the hero uses all his power to wrest a nuclear missile away from its collision course with Manhattan and up into space, where it explodes a waiting battleship of nasty intergalactic invaders—although that was [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 12, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/grassroots-heroism-what-we-need-now/
Loving Earth
To save the Earth, we must fall in love with her, writes Robert Koehler, taking his inspiration from the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics. Koehler and Eisenstein say that in the trajectory of human evolution, we have been locked in the selfish adolescent phase for a long, long time, just seeking to [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 21, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/loving-earth/
Bill McKibben, our environmental Pied Piper, is at it again
You gotta admire Bill McKibben. And you gotta wonder, where the frack does the guy get his indefatigable energy?? Off he goes again this week, starting a new campaign to protest hydraulic fracking in Ohio—you know, the state where natural gas drill rigs caused manmade earthquakes. I think we all have a pretty good idea [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 11, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/bill-mckibben-our-environmental-pied-piper-is-at-it-again/
Cupid, you devil–go home!
I find it really poignant that so many people are Googling “love” and turning up my Valentine’s Day blog post on how I was very happy, last February, to be awash in family love, even though romantic love was absent from my life. That my Valentine’s Day post is the single most popular post on [...]
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 9, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/cupid-you-devil-go-home/
May Day Mutiny: Radical Transformation Rises
Today is our “spring forward” day in the U.S., when we move the clocks forward an hour thus “losing an hour” in the morning, but gaining an additional hour of light at the end of the day. It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Massachusetts, with birds singing their love songs in the trees, and [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 11, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/may-day-mutiny-radical-transformation-rises/
Cupid, go home!
It’s fascinating to me that the Transition Times blog post that has gotten the most attention, by far, is “There’s more to love than Cupid and his arrows,” my Valentine’s Day 2012 post, which has been read hundreds of times since February 14. Of course, people are always interested in love and romance. And this [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 7, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/cupid-go-home/
Sparking Creativity at the 2012 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
It’s finally snowing in Massachusetts! My afternoon meetings were cancelled, and I can settle in by the fire and enjoy the peaceful quiet that always descends when we hunker down under a good New England snowfall. This gives me a welcome chance to share something positive for a change with my blog readers. Tomorrow is [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 29, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/sparking-creativity-at-the-2012-berkshire-festival-of-women-writers/
Hope springs eternal in our Garden of Earthly Delights
Today I was fortunate to attend a slide lecture by a truly talented photographer, Tanya Marcuse, an alum of Bard College at Simon’s Rock who has been teaching there for the past decade. She showed images from her current project, “Earthly Delights,” and talked about her process of composing and selecting these images. Tanya explained [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 8, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/hope-springs-eternal-in-our-garden-of-earthly-delights/
Planetary Superbowl
So it’s Superbowl Sunday in the US, a day that millions of Americans look forward to for months. I am always amazed at the passion with which sports fans engage in following teams, and I often think: if only we could harness that energy, dedication and drive and put it towards more important things like [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 5, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/planetary-superbowl/
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