What Collapse Feels Like, Part 4 of 5:  Despair: Every Hour Offers A Choice, By Carolyn Baker

What Collapse Feels Like, Part 4 of 5: Despair: Every Hour Offers A Choice, By Carolyn Baker

So if you want to insist that life is meaningless, which by the way even Nietzsche did not believe, you probably should stop reading right here. If you want me to convince you that life isn’t meaningless, well, I can’t do that, nor do I want to. It’s really none of my business, but if you have some inkling that it’s possible to find/make meaning in the throes of despair and that doing so matters in any way, you may want to continue reading.

Finding The Gift, By Paul Chefurka

Finding The Gift, By Paul Chefurka

Those of us who have been following the unfolding global crisis – the converging, interlocked “wicked problems” of energy, the environment, economics and social justice – have become intimately familiar with the painful progression through the Five Stages of Grief described by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.

Why Going Back To Normal Is No Longer An Option For The American Economy–And Where We're Headed Now, By Sara Robinson

Why Going Back To Normal Is No Longer An Option For The American Economy–And Where We're Headed Now, By Sara Robinson

Stop waiting. ‘Cause that train’s gone, and it ain’t coming back. And the sooner we accept that “normal,” as post WWII America knew and loved it, will not be an option in this century, the sooner we’ll get ourselves moving forward on the path toward a new kind of prosperity. The only real question now is: What future awaits us on the other side of the coming shift?

Dancing On History's Edge: Why This Is An Amazing Time To Be Alive, By Dianne Monroe

Dancing On History's Edge: Why This Is An Amazing Time To Be Alive, By Dianne Monroe

This is an amazing time to be alive!

“Yeah, right,” my inner cynic says, “crumbling economy, peak oil, peak everything, melting ice caps, mass extinctions… and you have no idea how you are going to survive in your old age.” The list goes on and on… all woven together, I remind my cynic within, by the incredible, inescapable fact that we are living in a time when the old is crumbling, which is when there is the greatest opportunity to create something new.

And that IS an amazing time to be alive!

Treat Yourself To A Rumi Symphony, By Carolyn Baker

Treat Yourself To A Rumi Symphony, By Carolyn Baker

In these turbulent times, it is both comforting and inspiring to hear the words of the mystical Persian poet, Rumi, who after more than 700 years is being passionately embraced by millions around the world who crave the juice and joy of poetry that speaks powerfully and personally to life in this age of uncertainty.