My little girl Isabella is four and she is an only child. But when she goes to the playground and a stranger asks her if she has any brothers and sisters she says yes. She says she has one brother and one sister. Her sister is called Frankie and her brother is called Billy. “Are […]
Polar bears
Should God have faith in us?
One privilege bestowed on me by writing this blog is the number of emails I get from all over the world, in general, and from people of different religions, in particular. I have a faith of a certain kind and I enjoy talking about the dependence of human health, happiness and security on the well-being […]
So much for the polar bear
Tomorrow, Friday, May 16, is Endangered Species Day. To celebrate, the Bush Administration has made the historic decision to list the polar bear as endangered while promising to do absolutely nothing substantive about it. Here is what Leda Huta, executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition, had to say about it on their Stop Extinction […]
Too cute to drown
I know, I know. It’s not about the polar bears. It’s about human health, happiness and security as it depends on the well-being of our planetary habitat. At least that’s the rather cumbersome phrase I coined in order to get away from the “environment,” which to so many connotes something alien, outside of ourselves and […]