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The yogurt mamas
Every morning, 56-year-old Elizabeth Gabeal from Tanzania goes to work in a small community kitchen in her village in the Mwanza region. The kitchen is known as Jiko la Maziwa Imara, Swahili for “the kitchen for healthy milk.” Here, she makes yogurt that she sells to friends and family. In Read More...
Help for the heart
Having trouble walking up stairs and experiencing tightness in your chest? If the arteries around your heart are clogged, your doctor will try to remove the blockage by performing an angioplasty. If that doesn’t help, the only remaining option is open-heart surgery. But does open-heart Read More...
December 21. Happy birthday to you. Yes, really!
Happy birthday! Yes, today is a birthday for all of us. Today humanity is transitioning into a new era. Today is the date that the Mayans marked as the end of their calendar centuries ago. They knew that today would be a new beginning for our world. Right at this moment, around the world many Read More...
The best of 2012
We hope you look back on a wonderful year! It has been a very special year for us. In 2012, Ode changed her name. She is now The Intelligent Optimist. Ode was always about open-minded optimists and pioneers of the possible looking for solutions.Ode was a song of praise, a tribute to the people Read More...
Warrior of the human spirit
"Let’s see ourselves as ‘warriors of the human spirit,’” says Margaret Wheatley, who has just published So Far From Home, a book about “how we ended up in a world that nobody wants.” (See an excerpt on page 52.) She sees perseverance as the way that these warriors get through. “I Read More...
Ode to the Treehotel
To call it a tree house would be almost insulting to Sweden’s Treehotel. The Lapland lodging opened its doors—or, rather, dropped its ladders—in 2010. Since then, thousands of guests have taken in the Lule River valley views from its treetop windows. The Treehotel has five different rooms; Read More...
Ode to Swings Tampa Bay
When was the last time you swung on a swing? It was probably much too long ago, and that is exactly what Swings Tampa Bay (STB) is trying to change. Known as a “spontaneous community-building organization,” STB organizes volunteers who hang handcrafted, hand-painted swings throughout the Tampa Read More...
A gunman shames us all
Mother Theresa famously said: "I'm not against war, I'm for peace." Profound wisdom. Please take a moment with me to direct your love to not just the young victims of the overwhelmingly painful massacre at the school in Connecticut and their families, but to all people who live Read More...
Step into infinity
When Alberto Villoldo was in the Amazon earlier this year, he found the shamans who live there in a deep state of preparation. They believe that beyond the end date of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012, lies the chance for a reinvention of humanity. Therefore, they are fasting and Read More...
December 21, 2012: the start of a new era
Imagine the Maya's who developed their calendar many centuries ago and concluded that December 21st, 2012 was going to be this exciting date at the beginning of a new era. How eager would they have been to be part of this great transition. Well, you are part of it! When Alberto Villoldo was Read More...