Dear Friend and Reader: Have you ever seen that Far Side cartoon where one cow is standing up on two feet in the middle of the herd, trying to get all the other cows to stampede? The thing is, they’re not interested. They just want to stand around and graze. Taurus is about values, that … Read more
What are we gonna do now? / Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew? ‘Cos working for the clampdown / They put up a poster saying we earn more than you! When we’re working for the clampdown / We will teach our twisted speech To the young believers / We will … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: The mystery of ‘self’ is one of the most persistent questions of modern times. In fact, it seems to be a good bit older; who is this critter lurking behind the mind and the senses? In our own age, many of us have grown up immersed in psychology. Of course, what … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: In late 2010, one of the Planet Waves editors posted to our blog an article she found about the odd relationship options offered by Facebook (for example, the category ‘it’s complicated’ being a stand-in for everything other than something supposedly normal, without saying what). Following that article back to its source, a blog … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader, Here in the Northern Hemisphere, May is the season of Beltane, also known as Midspring holiday. The theme is love and abundance, explored consciously as part of our relationship to the planet. No matter how weird things may get on Earth, we are still in a relationship to the planet, and … Read more