Women’s Equality Day - Aug. 26th
Gender equality is the goal that will help abolish poverty that will create more equal economies, fairer societies and happier men, women and children.
Graca Machel. https://stories.plancanada.ca
Weekly Pause & Ponder
We are all paying the price for climate change. Some of us though, are bearing a greater burden. It’s a scary commentary on inequity writ large, and it points to an urgent need for all of us to work harder to advance environmental justice everywhere.
- Rhea Suh, NRDC President.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
- Pope Francis.
Pope Francis walks near a statue of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, in 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.
Simple Truths, by Ken Nerburn