Maybe this pandemic is a wake-up call to the world. It’s time to start looking outside the boxes of each of our own little minds and to start thinking on a bigger scale – as in the world. Sadly, it takes a crisis to shake up things and open our collective eyes. Something I have […]
I’ve thought a lot about how to help a girl grow up confident: confident in her abilities, her intellect and in her own body. Lord knows it is a challenge to grow up in American society. Definitions of beauty and success are stiflingly narrow. When my daughter was a young teen, I remember driving […]
A picture says a thousand words…look at the body language here. Trump is unable to connect with his fellow human beings, and Melania looks miserable. Macron and Merkel have an obvious connection. How refreshing to see their humanity. Trump is a scabbed-over, wounded ego who needs help. Why in the world wouldn’t Trump know without […]
Recently, I closely and lovingly watched Emma, a beautiful seven-year-old Belgian draft mare, we saved from imminent slaughter at the New Holland Livestock Auction in Pennsylvania. Emma appeared to me to be living in a Garden of Eden of sorts right in my own backyard. I was struck by this idea: the way in […]
Fearless Compassion By Francesca Fremantle March 25, 2017 To think of Trungpa Rinpoche it is not just to remember an extraordinary man, but to be drawn into the depth and vastness of his mind, to glimpse a state of being, completely liberated and beyond concepts. Although he left his body twenty years ago, his presence among […]
My best friend’s lost her shine She’s not her own girl; She’s Daddy’s girl, her Husband’s girl It makes me pine. If you told me this story last year at this time, I would never have believed it! Friends for twenty years, our families spent New Year’s together for all those years; it was a […]
Henry Bergh (August 29, 1813-March 12, 1888), a man of great compassion and conscience, founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the US was passed into law by the New York Legislature. To many owners of […]
There is a lot of information out there regarding the right way to train your dog. There are trainers who do not have credentials, so it is always important for you to do your homework so that you can be confident that your dog is getting the most scientifically researched and humane training out there. […]
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. Since it is National Be Kind to Animals Week (May 1 – May 7), it is a great time to discuss the importance of Albert Schweitzer and his influence on the animal welfare community. His ideas significantly influenced […]
“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” – Buddha “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” – Albert Schweitzer Every country has its list of animals […]