Last night was the night for my daughter to pick up her high school schedule and walk about the school to locate her classrooms on her schedule.

There were dads expressing their fears and concerns about their daughters starting high school and what might happen with boys. What might happen if boys get enough face time or computer time with the girls and the girls will submit.

I said that the girls must have enough in themselves to know to say "no" if "no" is what they feel. We also talk... read more

Polyamory, conflict, and the monoamorous paradigm:
Moving past expectation and repression...to fun!

OK, I know this is long...here goes!

I have found that the cause of much conflict in polyamory relationships is not shedding the conditioning of the monoamorous paradigm.

What is the monoamorous paradigm? One way to answer that question is to describe what you think our culture would say is the ideal relationship. How many people? Married or not? How living? Inner workings of the rel... read more

Hello!

I am going to say that I do not feel jealousy. it is important for me to communicate in relationships, but I do not have rules or issues about jealousy.

I believe we are all born free and pure. What society puts on us is amazing - that we are allowed to limit our loved one's freedom. That we allow ourselves to repress ourselves, the most beautiful thing - to repress love and the expression of love, unless it is a very particular way.

I know society and the world is changing. ... read more

"Spirit and Stardust"
by U.S. Representative Dennis J. Kucinich
Praxis Peace Institute Conference
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Sunday, June 9, 2002

As one studies the images of the Eagle Nebula, brought back by the Hubble Telescope from that place in deep space where stars are born, one can imagine the interplay of cosmic forces across space and time, of matter and spirit dancing to the music of the spheres, atop an infinite sea of numbers.

Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe... read more