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Lately, I’ve been thinking about the general moral sensibilities of our American public. You often hear of Americans being somewhat repressed when it comes to sexuality and the like–certainly as compared to European mindsets. What strikes me as odd, though, is that while nudity, sex, and matters of our physical human bodies make so many [...]

I recently started following “The Natural Life Magazine” Twitter stream and this came to me–a video clip of Julia “Butterfly” Hill talking about the importance of not letting what we are against define us. If you don’t remember Hill, she is an American environmentalist who spent over 700 days–from December 1997 to December 1999–sitting and [...]

John Taylor Gatto is scheduled to speak at this year’s InHome Conference. Gatto is a writer and speaker, an outspoken critic of compulsory education, a homeschooling advocate, and an award winning former New York public school teacher. He’s in the process of raising money to complete a documentary film entitled The Fourth Purpose. Just recently, [...]