Heroes
"To display the lantern of the soul in shadowy times like these--to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.... When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Environmental Heroes: There's too many to list, but if you're feeling any level of despair, just read through this list of amazing people who are fighting the good fight to protect our earth.
Bill Bertain:
a local lawyer (and friend) who has fought an epic legal battle against the
fraud that was involved in the hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber Company, as
documented in the great read The Last Stand (now out of print but
available as most local bookstores that handle used books).
Italo
Calvino: Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important
Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.
Joseph Campbell:
Campbell was one of the quintessential scholars on myth in the 20th
Century. For more information about his life and work, check out this
website by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. (Note: the article and pictures
are down below the green menu.)
Clarissa Pinkola Estés:
author of Women Who Run with the Wolves. She picked up the thread
that Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell had started, but she has a whole new approach
for women in particular.
Faces of the Fallen: Here's a composite of all the American soldiers who have died in Iraq since the war began.
Julia
Butterfly Hill: Julia Butterfly Hill sat in a tree on Pacific Lumber Corp.
land for two years to show her opposition to continued cutting of old growth
timber. For more about her story, check out her organization, the Circle
of Life Foundation.
Molly
Ivins: Molly Ivins was a Texas journalist who knew how to tell a great
story, to skewer the foolish and incompetent, and how to make people laugh.
She will be greatly missed.
Michael Moore: Moore is
an author and filmmaker who continues to question the status quo. If you
haven't had a chance to see one of his movies, you might want to start with The
Big One or Bowling for Columbine.
Vandana Shiva:
Shiva is an activist in India who favors traditional agriculture and is
therefore staunchly opposed to GMOs. She has written a number of books on
such issues and is a passionate speaker who travels all over the world sharing
her message.
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