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A Prayer for Monarch Butterflies By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, Lincoln Brower and Homero Aridjis note the winter monarch colonies near Mexico City have shrunk considerably. Between 1993 and 2003, they covered an average of 2…
A Prayer for Africa's Elephants By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, Jeffrey Gettleman reported on the recent shooting of 22 elephants including several very young ones in the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Co…
Reframing the Familiar By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Literary Wisdom Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he never wrong? ― Buddy in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & S…
A Prayer for the Mudslide Victims in Brazil By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The Boston Globe reports on the devastation in Brazil in mid-January 2011: "Last week, a series of flash floods and mudslides struck the Serrana mountain region near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, destroyi…
Looking for God By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Mystical Wisdom A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate. — Madeleine L'Engle in Suncatcher by Carole Chase
Da Nose Knows By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The comedian Jimmy Durante had a large nose and used to make jokes about it. "Da nose knows," he said and I believed it. We ramble through the world smelling things and being attracted or repelled b…
A Lamentation over Burned Crops By Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Crop fires have become a weapon of war in Iraq and Syria. An article on Morning Ag Clips reports that farmers were looking forward to the best harvest since war began across the region, but now once…
A Prayer for the Safety and Well-Being of Rhinos By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The rhino is being hunted into extinction and could disappear forever unless we act now. Statistics show 440 rhinos were brutally killed last year in South Africa by poachers seeking their horns, an…
What You Do By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Literary Wisdom There's something to be said for sitting still and letting things clear, the way morning fog burns off the lake. — George Witte, American poet Medical Wisdom The small am…
Different Strokes for Different Folks By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Music Lyrics We got sunshine in the music Music keeps me full of love. — "Sunshine in the Music" by Jimmy Cliff Transformational Wisdom I do not like that man. I need to get to know hi…

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