Upland joined The Charter for Compassion, saying it will help others in need and respect cultural, ethnic and religious diversity — A landscaper trimming tall grasses with a weedwhacker near an area that usually attracts wild birds was careful not to disturb any nests, an act noticed by Upland City Councilmember Janice Elliott. Also, the landscaper wasn’t using pesticides. “I said, ‘There was a person being compassionate,’ ” Elliott recalled, pointing…

~A reflection on International Women’s Day Mammals are viviparous animals, meaning they are capable of live births. Oviparous animals lay and hatch eggs to procreate and have their young. Scientists find that 99% of animals hatch out of eggs; that number includes insects. One percent of animals, then, are part…

UKRAINE sheltering in tube, what dangers moves over them What waters under An archipelago of sky I am in my quiet place There I hunker Are you angry with me because you said there’s snow in so soft a voice I didn’t hear? Dark dreams with a tall strong woman: …

from Nic Paton in Cape Town South Africa In the month since the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a champion of peace and common-sense humanity and spirituality it has become clear that the champion of the deep values of unity, justice and compassion — in a word, ubuntu —…

Memories of Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Marilyn Turkovich It was April 15, 2008, and there I sat, row three in the University of Washington field stadium surrounded by people wall-to-wall. On stage, the Seattle Symphony under the baton of conductor Gerard Schwarz. The Symphony was joined by youth artists who sat next to their mentors…

Autumn gives way to winter, sometimes gradually, sometimes suddenly, and the trees teach us how to let go gracefully and move forward. It’s a lesson in accepting change. It’s also a reminder to allow and embrace what we need most in a spirit of self compassion. We seem to need…

How might technology best be able to service humanity to lead us towards a better future? …

Recent estimates suggests that as many as 50 million to 100 million people perished from the Spanish Flu pandemic, which began near the end of World War I and then spread worldwide, ostensibly transmitted by soldiers as they returned home after the war. Although the global death toll was high…