Living Freedom Archive

Freedom to me is the right to be the best human that I can be. That includes the right to celebrate life; to love, to appreciate and enjoy the life and love of others as well. It is essential that we each respect other; that we listen carefully with open-hearted reverence and recognize ourselves in [...]

For me, freedom is uncovered from within. It is a state of being, beyond any condition or circumstance.
It is trusting what I sense, when I listen to the Silence, this Energy that comes through me. Each manifested impulse to accept, to honor, to appreciate, and to love, frees me and those around [...]

I am an artist,
humanitarian, mother,
wife, daughter, neighbor,
grandchild, sister, movie buff, gardener, flower arranger, (and sender) wine enthusiast, friend and confident, fashion seeker,
stranger (hopefully kind and considerate to most,)
aspiring chef, photographer, producer, collaborator, curious mind (who loves discovering new perspectives,via books, the internet, media, other artists, encounters, etc) and ultimately, [...]

From: THRALL

……when obscenely further back, malefic
democracy broken open,
optionally steps through you
disappearing in the dips
and the bourgeois body
pursued to the limits of faded money
wills not
to jump its shark

impressed into the radiation
a single torrential fusion
draw aside panoptic
collapse of time and space
by none
exacted with more rigor

we, who go through the day
as yet unmingled in ceaseless flux
all the dead [...]

To Be Freely Forwarded in Support of Freedom ~ Define Who You Are

Compiled for The Campaign to Liberate Freedom By Lorinda Earl,
Activist, Social Commentator,
and Dharma Mom (as of November 3rd, 2006),
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
email: lorinda (at) thepinkhouse.ca

1. Turn Off Your TV, but stay INFORMED: Anything you can find on the television can also be found online. [...]

“You gotta collect it. You gotta reach out and grab all the little broken, busted-up pieces of people’s frustration. That stuff in them that’s looking for a way out or a way in. The stuff in them that makes them wanna see God’s face. … And then you gotta take all that into yourself and [...]

During my senior year at Harvard, two weeks from graduation, I walked into the room of a friend who lived down the hall. He was knee deep in backpacking and mountaineering gear. I asked him what his plans were after graduation. (Most of us were already slotted to go to med school, law [...]

Nearly forty years ago, Janis Joplin screamed in song that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” A few years before her, an impassioned Martin Luther King called out his dreams of freedom, amplifying the determined footfall of Gandhi’s earlier satyagraha, or non violent protest for freedom. Their messages [...]