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How Long Until We Put On The Brakes?

A pervasive sense up to now has been that climate change is distant — distant in time, and distant in space. And what we’re now beginning to see is that it’s not so distant. It’s not just future generations. It’s us and it’s our own children! More…

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The site at Meoto Iwa in Japan. Two stones are joined in matrimony several times every year in a special Shinto ceremony.

Big Time Romance

When we hear the words “romance,” “intimacy,” or “love,” we typically envision people staring into one-another’s eyes, walking hand-in-hand, embracing, engaged in all manner of wondrously intimate expression. The predominant idea is that romance is exclusive, and likewise an exclusively human affair. But is the idea of love as a human-only notion unreasonable? More…