This article appears on the Enki Education Website. I have been trained as a teacher in this method and there are several Home and Charter schools as well as a full Shambhala School where this is the method of choice. This article was written by the founder of Enki education and certainly my mentor in many ways, Beth Sutton.

What a beautiful day for a nature walk by the creek near our home. The children running so freely, kicking the fallen leaves with the crisp autumn morning air caressing their rosy cheeks. It was another parent sanctioned EF(Electronics Free) day in our house today. They always moan when we announce that we are officially unplugging them for a WHOLE DAY!

I found a great interview with Ani Pema Chodron on Faith and Reason- PBS. Here's the link. It is a ful 60 minutes with Pema.
Enjoy
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/portraits_chodron.html
A-sprout

As I've mentioned before, I have two boys who I very carefully had diagnosed with ADHD and they are on medication. I do control as many symptoms as possible by monitoring their refined sugar intake and by watching food coloring, artificial flavors and preservatives. Here's a new article that helps to provide solid evidence that food additives do affect children negatively.

Humanity may be losing half of its intellectual, social and spiritual legacy in a single generation, as the world loses a reported one language about every two weeks.

Social Critic and long time educator Neil Postman passed away a few years ago but he spent his life mindfully and diligently trying to enlighten the world about treading carefully in the light of technolgy.

Natural pest control for gardeners 9 From greenlivingonline)

Are garden pests making you nostalgic for banned pesticides? There are plenty of natural solutions for getting rid of unwanted guests in your garden.
By Green Living Online

Pesticides are dangerous

Yesterday I was enjoying my beautiful backyard while reading and all of a sudden what lands literally on my nose but a dandelion clock!

From Reuters: Retrieved: August 8, 2007 at 4:23 PM

China's white dolphin likely extinct
Wed Aug 8, 8:16 AM

SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's rapid industrialisation has likely made extinct a species of fresh water dolphin that had been on Earth for over 20 million years, Chinese and British biologists said Wednesday.

Wanted to share my Papa's breakfast he ate every morning for most of his life. He lived until he was 92 and was a Fisherman and out on the open sea until he was 89!!!

Hello DEO. WOW you guys have been on fire!!!! I was away in Ottawa with my children for four days and DEO exploded. You never know what you are going to miss!!

I always revisit the writings of Gibran from time to time. This one fit nicely with the blog on Love. It was part of my wedding ceremony.

Blessings for all of us to find freedom in love.
~ a-sprout

Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"

And he answered saying:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

Fair Trade Coffee - An Ethical Choice for Co-op
Monday, June 11, 2007 - In the "Gabriola Sounder"

Making a difference... Mid Island Co-op takes the initiative to be the first on Vancouver Island area to switch all coffee sold in its gas bars to fairly traded. This includes Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Gabriola Island and the newly renovated Parksville gas bar.

Hello All.
Just wanted to share a very interesting observation made by one of my students in a journal they had to write about what their Utopia would be like.

From : Vanishing Cultures - Wade Davis