Humanity
Why the Climate Crisis is the World’s Biggest Mental Health Problem. Top Story - September 2021.
If you are worrying yourself into depression about future problems caused by climate change, you are far from alone. Yet climate change is not just about the future. Its consequences are hitting hard today. That’s why many call it a climate emergency, or a climate crisis.
By Mark Campbell4 years ago in Earth
Simplicity
Can you imagine being some other than what you are? Delivery mail for the mind. The mere thought of blossoming while the world burns around you seems impossible at times, something as simple as planting a tree, flower or herb you often have high expectations but things don’t always go to plan do they?
By Nicole Danby4 years ago in Earth
Tapari: A traditional Leaf Plate and culture of Nepal
After the momos (traditional plates) at Tapari College and a heated discussion with Bidhan Kobie about the future, the idea of starting a business came up. We decided to explore the idea of making a better plate that would add value to the tapers we use. We learned and worked on a variety of leaves such as pine, palm, corn, and areca trees to make better leaf plates.
By Rashmi Dahal4 years ago in Earth
Martha's Pears
Martha was old and Deedee was ignorant of the most important things. Deedee had shown up in her kitchen uninvited, a little rag-tag bit of a very white young woman. Martha wondered who had brought her. She looked out the window at several young men waiting for the fish head soup to be served. The girl had no manners. She sat on the countertop that stretched along the back wall. Did she not know counters were for food prep, not dirty Levi's? She had to be told to sit in the nearby chair.
By Diane Poole4 years ago in Earth
Humanity
Like a pebble trickling down a mountain side, slowly picking up speed and gathering more momentum. As it rolls down further, it gathers more strength. And the further it goes along, the bigger it grows until it becomes too large for the mountain to handle. Quietly it makes itself known to the mountain. It gathers substantial size, not quite destructive as it levels a few bushes, small creatures, and other insignificant beings. It continues rolling, not stopping to think what it could be capable of, but rather to see just how powerful it can become. Now as the boulder comes tumbling down upon the mountain, crushing everything in its path, it starts to understand it’s true power and laughs manically knowing what it can do. And from here, time and again it leaps into the air and comes crashing down leaving devastation in its wake. But it doesn’t lose speed. It just keeps going, not thinking twice about the chaos it has brought. The speed now is incredible. The mountain now quaking beneath the heaviness of the boulder. Too large to stop and the single most devastating object on the face of the mountain. Nothing stands a chance. Still racing passed trees, larger creatures, some unrecognizable now, to think they flourished before, only their remains can be seen. And yet the boulder has not stopped to think if it should continue, because it thinks it cannot fail and will grow to be the biggest, strongest force to be reckoned with. Then. Then the boulder leaps and bounds into the air, this is the big one it says. It flies through the air now, fully aware of its power, knowing that nothing stands a chance against it. It hurdles towards the ground clearly about to demolish anything beneath and around it for all eyes to see. Surely when it hits, nothing will be left. And it was right. As the boulder comes crashing back towards the earth, it hits. And nothing is left. Shattered remains of what once was this gargantuan monster, lie in pieces, scattered all around and nothing. No movement, no more destruction. No more anything. The boulder had become destructive, even stronger than it itself could deal with. A force to be reckoned with, but it could not withstand its own destructive abilities. What the boulder saw as power and possibilities, ended in nothing. This is Humanity. Humanity as it stands today, like the boulder not realizing its destructive capabilities, we too do not stop to think if we should press on. As the boulder lies at the base of the mountain, only remnants of what once was, we too shall lie at the end of tomorrow, with only shattered memories of what once was the human race.
By Joshua Montes 4 years ago in Earth
The Marigolds Sing Pt. 3
There’s a somber, melancholic rage hidden in the beauties of gushing waterfalls. The fragrant deluge, the grand reception of glimmering waters, majestic in its prowess, wailing and howling, crushing moss against rocks, enforcing the carelessness of her agile mass on the soil and rocks, as they clamor about and out of her way. Catapulted forward, rambunctious in the way that she lunges on, rushing to meet the rigid edges of the earth. Fleeing the dark to conquer the light. Sunshine.
By Messtiza Noire4 years ago in Earth
Ayiti, You’re Not Alone — 3 Ways You Can Help Haiti Disaster Relief From Home . Top Story - August 2021.
By now you’ve probably seen the news of the devastation in Haiti. Men, women, and children trapped under rubbles of what once was their home, school, or church. Desperation, thirst, hunger and anguish have fully set in as the citizens of the first Black Nation look up to heavens wondering where their relief will come from. I can only imagine how my Haitian brothers and sisters feel right now as they are trapped on the small island that has been hit back to back by natural and societal disasters for the past decade.
By Millie Diaz4 years ago in Earth
Writers Of The World Unite
The headline news on this day was a wake-up call from the IPCC to all human inhabitants of this planet that we are on a slippery slope to disaster. In what form will this disaster take? Rising oceans, scorching temperatures making some areas of the planet unliveable, greater and more frequent storms, extensive flooding, droughts, disappearing glaciers causing disappearing potable water in various parts of the world, or all of the above.
By Michael Trigg4 years ago in Earth
