FertileHearted Human

An Invitation to Daily Deliberate Action to Decrease the Damage of Climate Change. I posted this blog a few years ago, but it’s just as timely if not more so today as it was then. The sinking feeling of helplessness after reading the March 31st New York Times headline: Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk:Worst is […]

November 9 is when I celebrate International Day of Compassion. Another tiny personal step toward peace, which evolved through my 9/11 Bowing Project. But as I prepare to celebrate it this year, I’m thinking that at this stage of our evolution, we might not be quite ready for compassion. Maybe it’s too ambitious an aim. […]

I’m scared, tired, holding no more than a sliver of belief that what I’m doing will make the slightest difference. But tomorrow is my day to show up for the eighth time at Ground Zero for my 9/11 Bowing Project, so that’s where I’ll be heading on the morning train out of Rhinecliff. Because somewhere underneath […]

They tell me war is messy. It’s a mess, they say, that involves the death of children. That’s just the way it is and we must seek out the murderers and wipe them off the face of the earth.They tell me  I need to be careful when  posting a picture of a dead child of […]

Children? You mean someone is killing children? Go! That  line is from Czech writer, Karel Čapek’s 1938 play, Mother. I first heard it as a radio drama when I was in high school. Dolores, a mother who lost her husband and four sons to war, finally relents and allows her last remaining son  to enlist. […]