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Simple past. Present perfect! Future progressive... ♥, ☮ & ☺. ä:x On this journey called LIFE: We are all a product of our past, the gift of our present and foretellers of our own future.

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THE HUBRIS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY: Welcome to the Cloud of Digital Oblivion.

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Bird of Paradise: Courtship Spectacle

Vogelkop Bowerbird: The Flower Bower

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The Truth is somewhere... IN THE MIDDLE!

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“This movement, to solve the climate crisis is in the tradition of every great moral movement that has advanced the cause of humankind. And every single one of them has met with resistance to  the point where many of the advocates felt despair and wondered how long is this going to take. Martin Luther King famously answered a question during some of the bleakest hours of the civil rights movement when someone asked, “How long is this going to take?” He said, “How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long because the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.” How long? Not long. We are close in this movement. We are very close to the tipping point beyond which this movement, like the abolition movement, like the women’s suffrage movement, like the civil rights movement, like the anti-apartheid movement, like the movement for gay rights, is resolved into a choice between right and wrong. And because of who we are as human beings, the outcome is foreordained. And it is right to save the future for humanity! It is wrong to pollute this Earth and destroy the climate balance! It is right to give hope to the future generation! It will not be easy and we too, in this movement will encounter a series of no’s. The great American poet Wallace Stevens in the last century, one of his lines was this: After the last no comes a Yes. And on that Yes, the future world depends.” - Al Gore, excerpts from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

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“Let people live in your heart. There’s no limit on numbers. They tell the stories, and everyone share their stories. When people really listen... they live in your heart forever.” excerpt: Children Full of Life

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The Healthy California Act (SB 562): Executive Summary

MEDICARE FOR ALL IS COMING, No Matter What They Say SINGLE-PAYER ‘Medicare for All’ Is the Only Health-Care System That Makes Sense

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BYE BYE CAR A more sustainable freedom of mobility and an alternative way to reducing if not eliminating overburdened cost-overhead and carbon footprints of owning a car.

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GREED: How a World‘s Dream can easily turn into a Planetary Nightmare.

"The ever exploring EGO-SYSTEM is inevitably entwined with the overall ECOSYSTEM. We constantly construct or destruct to either sustain or disdain our intricate yet vital relationship with ourselves, among others, the wildlife and to our ONE true known habitat." <Ā> "ECOLOGY IS FLOW. You and I are most definitely part of the flow. Everything we do affects the flow and everything the flow does affects us. It doesn't really matter what I read, or think, or write. Don't judge me by my words which are many or by my actions which are few. Because if we wait for the meek to inherit the Earth, there won't be anything left to inherit." <Robert Hunter, Excerpt: How To Change The World>

Question: What runs deep into the veins of our system?

Solve the VALUE? from the Given Human Equation:  GREED + LIES - EMPATHY x MISTRUST / INEQUALITY = VALUE? Now Substitute, Modify or Simplify Equation and Variables. Then Determine VALUE? Apply & Live By Re:SOLUTIONS! Blissful year(s) ahead. Ā

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RISE, DANCE & SHINE above the gloom!

“Each animal must find its own way of surviving the competition of the jungle. This crowded world is so full of invention that almost all kinds of animals on land can trace their origins back here... INCLUDING US.”

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EARTHQUAKES NOW ruins of the historic 8.7M megathrust Convento da Ordem do Carmo Lisbon, Portugal

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EARTHQUAKES December 2016  Ring of Fire area ALERT!

Solomon Islands: 7.8 magnitude quake puts South Pacific on tsunami alert (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - TSUNAMI WAVES ALERT measuring 1 to 3 meters (3 to 10 feet) ABOVE TIDAL LEVELS are POSSIBLE (CNN)

Northern California: 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of California, 250 miles north of San Francisco (ABC)

Indonesia: 6.5 magnitude earthquake, at least 102 killed in Aceh province (BBC)

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The Balance of Life:

EVERY ONE has a mission.

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I need some more of this in my life! #AKorBust15 (at Valdez, Alaska)

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Being Alone does NOT equate being lonely: The Many Wonders of Being Independent

You can make things happen ALONE. You can get your dream job or buy that house or travel to this country without anyone’s help or approval. When you are growing up without being committed to someone, you truly have the world in your hands and you can just do whatever you want and become whoever you want. Being independent is a wonderful thing that will make you rich in so many ways. In this day and age, being single is actually a privilege — depending on the way you look at it... <THINKING HUMANITY>

photo credits: EUROPE DIARIES The magic of being Alone but not lonely.