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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD.

On June 26, 1982, my dad went back to the little town in Germany where he had parachuted into someone’s backyard, bleeding, in the snow, in the Winter of early 1944. He went to the local Post Office and spoke with someone who knew some English. He explained who he was and why he had...

The first March for the Animals took place in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 1990. Although the ASPCA had been around for over a century and the NWF and other American and foreign groups and individuals had been standing up for the animals for quite a while, this was the first global event that brought...

Throughout humans’ recorded history, we have caused the loss of 83% of the wild mammals and 50% of the plants. Of all the mammals on the Earth today, 60% are livestock, 36% are humans and 4% are wild creatures. London, May 21, 2018

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are – one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield....

March 24, 2018 The United Nations issues four reports stating that the Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate. The Americas, Europe, Central Asia, Africa, the Asia-Pacific: none are doing well. Severe declines in the numbers of elephants, tigers and pangolins, the most visible and charismatic of the thousands of...

March 21, 2018 Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhinoceros. “Utter tragedy today. We just can’t sit back and watch more species disappear.” Boris Johnson. British Foreign Secretary.

You’d be 70 today. Happy Birthday dear friend. You weren’t supposed to die so damn young. I thought we’d be old farts together. But it’s just me turning old while you remain forever young. There’s nobody I can give a hard time to, no buddy that I have fun with like I did with you....

In the summer of 1960, when I was 14, I saw and heard John Fitzgerald Kennedy when he spoke to the people of Cincinnati, downtown, at Fountain Square. He had such a beautiful voice On November 22, 1963, a few months after I had moved to Tucson, I was running around the perimeter of Catalina...

Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.