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Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Photo by Erlie Lopez.   POEM       by Erlie Lopez i love dusks when the amber of the sky sends a glow to the heart and the breeze whiffs a kiss to the…

SPIRITUALITY         by Genevieve Balance-Kupang From the Byakko Shinko Kai (BSK) perspective, written mandalas of bright words and gratitude to nature are a path to inner peace and world peace. The mandala is a circle with a…

NARRATIVE         by Trudi Richards When my brother and sisters and I were little and we got too rowdy, our mother used to suddenly say, “let’s listen to the quiet!” Then we would all hunker down and…

POEM         The wind through the leaves The waves upon the shores The clouds crossing the skies The cyclones twirling across the land The petals that open and waft away…   Nothing stays Nor remains the same…

THE ARTS         Apart from the occasional lack of creative ideas and inspirations, there are considerable limitations that hinder artists from flourishing and fully actualizing their potentials. It has been a long tradition that artists sought support…

Even though FBI data has indicated that violent crime rates in the United States declined between 1993 and 2019, violence continues to be a pressing issue in this country (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/). In fact, according to TIME magazine, 2020 was one of…

Friday, April 16, 2021, the 8th International Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies began with a worldwide videoconference: “A new humanism for a new world – plural exchanges from a world in crisis”. The symposium is broadcasted on…

We publish here the paper presented by Roberta Consilvio, researcher at the Salvatore Puledda World Centre for Humanist Studies, in the framework of the International Symposium held virtually today Friday 16 April, tomorrow Saturday 17 and Sunday 18. INTRODUCTION Good…

Daunte Wright’s death Sunday night, April 11, in Brooklyn Center, 10 miles south of Minneapolis, came as the city already was on edge, in the middle of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George…

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons It is the year 2021, and there are only ten or fewer vaquitas left in the world today. Environmentalist groups such as WWF, Sea Shepherd Conservation Organization, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN)…