Photo courtesy Organic Consumers Association Hidden in the 2026 Farm Bill is Section 12006 — a provision that would wipe out animal welfare laws in 15 states overnight. Laws that voters passed by wide margins to ban the cruelest factory farm practices: pregnant pigs...

Photo©thvideo/123rf Nothing like this spring has been seen in generations. We are on the cusp of a reimagined world. On April 25th, Uranus returns to Gemini. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was during the WWII era. The time before that coincided with the United...

Photo courtesy Bill Strubbe Saturday morning breaks clear and chilly, puff clouds scudding across the brilliant blue. From my porch the view of Mt. Tavor rising from the Jezreel Valley, the Benedictine Monastery of the Transfiguration perched atop, is stunning. To the...

Photo©sounds/123rf It was a Sunday afternoon when I received the call from my mom. She usually checked in on the weekends to catch up. I miss those calls from my mother, as she passed a few years back, but it’s the memories you hold onto. There is one memory I recall...

Photo©ValeriiHoncharuk/123rf Teacher ‘Refusing To Pay $175/Hour’ For Therapy Shares The No-Cost Mental Health Resources They Use Instead by Emily Shiffer, Upworthy Mental health therapy in the United States is expensive. According to a 2024 study that analyzed over...

Photo©thevisualsyouneed/123rf I don’t remember the day I stopped enjoying ruminating about the suffering from my past. My emotional wound had become my best friend, my confidant, from an early age. I had gotten used to the idea that the discomfort I lived with inside...

Artwork©WarangkanaBunyarittongchai/123rf Have you ever felt like your heart was breaking? Can you recall a time in your life when you experienced a breakup or divorce? Maybe someone treated you harshly or caused you pain in some way. Perhaps you were bullied as a...

Elephant ambulance – Courtesy of Wildlife SOS New Elephant Ambulance Marks Inaugural Rescue, Bringing 27-Year-Old To Hospital With Leg Injury by Andy Corbley, Good News Network An animal conservation/welfare organization has had to think big to solve a big challenge:...

Artwork©denis1203/123rf The body is often the first to know when something is wrong, and the last to be believed. Long before the mind assembles an explanation, the body registers strain, misalignment, and truth. A tightening in the chest, a heaviness in the gut, a...

For over a month, a couple and their 1-year-old son stayed in their apartment, watching immigration enforcement vehicles outside. “You don’t know what is most important: whether to go out for his well-being, or to go out and think that you might not come back,” the...