Vera Farmiga delivers a stellar performance as Corinne in her directorial debut, Higher Ground -- an adaptation of Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir, This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost. Critics seem to be either hot or cold with this one, but I loved its honesty...
Israel's nefarious use of violence in the occupation of Palestine has empowered Hamas to grow from a tiny movement of a few radicals to the sizable threat that it is today. When we open our eyes enough to see Israel's complicity in expanding Hamas the motives become clear...
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus...
Excerpted from the Introduction to The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges. (Footnotes omitted.) Available from Nation Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2011. Reprinted by permission of Nation Books. No part...
"Contemplating a loving God strengthens portions of our brain--particularly the frontal lobes and the anterior cingulate--where empathy and reason reside. Contemplating a wrathful God empowers the limbic system, which is 'filled with aggression and fear.' It is a sobering...
"There's nothing magical about change. It is getting up off your ass and caring enough to take the first step to contribute to change on an issue you care about. Anybody can do it if they just get up and take the first step, and do the work. It's work. It's not a...
September mornings--when the the cool rain is hitting the tin roof and the breezes blow with enough swagger to make the trees bow in admiration--remind me of when my second daughter was born and after we had held her in our arms for some time we knew exactly what her...
{{ a d a y i n p h o t o g r a p h s }} September 29th, 2011 -- Annual Curran's Orchard Tradition *****
