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Letters in issue 24 |
More on The Secret
YES, YES, YES! How uplifting to read some basic common sense in your editorial The Secret, New Age Chinese Whispers [June – Aug edition, vol 22].
The eminent British economist E. F Schuemarka wrote a book back in the seventies called Small is Beautiful. He systematically showed that this ‘me’ centred lifestyle of trying to own and control unlimited material resources, simply was not possible, in the limited environment that we call planet Earth. There is enough here for all of man’s needs, but not his greeds!
Nor does the accumulation of this so-called ‘abundance’ satisfy us.
The spiritual being whose home is this temporary material body, needs spiritual food to satisfy his restless heart. With gradual spiritual growth comes real peace, love and compassion. As with anything that is worthwhile doing. This takes time and effort. A better future for ourselves and others is definitely in our own hands but it is not gained by some mental masturbation trying to create our future with our thoughts and feelings!
Maladhar Gibbons
Bilambil, NSW
Love letters
I read your mag. A fellow midwife brought it back from the Australian College of Midwives Inc. conference held last week. I think it’s marvellous. A very good resource tool for our mums, dads and bubs. We are a group of hospital-based midwives just starting caseload or continuity of care in our unit (struggling with the hierarchy...). Your mag gives me strength. Thanks.
Ros
Email
I wanted you to know how much I enjoy your publication. I have never seen another like it here in the States. My husband is from New Zealand and while I was pregnant on a visit there, a friend showed me your amazing magazine. It changed my whole perspective of childbirth. Thank you for the great work!
Linda, Kayne and Miela Raymond
United States
Standing up, making a difference
I am part of a couple of groups who may be interested in the film fundraiser and group subscription. Would you please send more information?
Isn’t the TED article wonderful [published in Kindred’s November e-newsletter Kindred Spirit – see video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307 on presentation ‘Does School Kill Creativity?’].
I am looking into homeschooling. I thoroughly agree that school has become an institution—but not the highly regarded one it used to be.
My husband and I went to Don Tolman’s talks [Kindred’s e-newsletter Kindred Spirit, November edition—see www.kindredmedia.com.au/library/kindred_spirit_november_2007/28/1] and haven’t stopped raving about it. My husband has created a fruit bowl at work and banned fundraising chocolates. His staff members make a small weekly donation toward a charitable cause each week in return for the fruit and veg supply. It is a feel good situation all round!
Thanks for a great magazine and campaign!
Peta Crogan
Email
I purchased your latest edition of Kindred yesterday and have read it cover to cover already. I have also visited a plethora of websites that were advertised within, namely researching nappy options for our next arrival, but also peeking at a few other interesting businesses.
I am inspired and excited by what I have found both in your mag, on your website and from your advertisers. So much so that I have a vision of presenting these ideas to my community. We live in a coastal village on the north coast which, although changing slowly, I feel needs a bit of a shake up.
We are so blessed here to have a beautiful environment and lifestyle that it’s sometimes easy to forget, or perhaps ‘be ignorant’, to the challenges facing our planet at this time. I imagine a monthly community gathering in our large community hall where we can gather as a community to explore and become aware of these challenges.
I personally have a love of film, however I have been disheartened over the years as to the commercial crap being produced, with its negativity, violence and totally un-inspiring content. I came across this website recently www.spiritualcinemacircle.com and felt a pull to start something like your Media that Matters movement. However, being 5.5 months pregnant I thought I’d add it to the list of things ‘To Do Later’. Looking at your current selection of DVDs I’m feeling that pull again and here I am ‘quietly enquiring’ as to what exactly is offered through the program, how it is managed and I guess realistically how much work is involved?
Karen
NSW
Editor’s response
It is emails like yours that keep the fires stoked here at Kindred. Thank you so much for not only your kind words, but for listening, looking, seeing, caring and showing up. Such a rare person who has this kind of courage. And it is my honour to meet them through the magazine’s readership. We’d love to support you in whatever way is appropriate for what you’d like to do in your community.
Film screenings are a real winner. We have the ‘public screening rights’ to two special films that you can use to create memorable, engaging and community-building events. Kindred has ‘screening packs’ that include the film with rights, posters, email invitations, press releases, flyers... even a ‘how to host a screening’ sheet... just to make it easy.
The films are:
• The Future of Food (a powerful film about GM crops /GM industry and how it destroys communities, lives, health)
• The Power of Community (an inspiring film about how Cuba dealt with its own ‘peak oil’...creating community gardens and going organic—80% of food grown in Cuba today is organic!)
And there are a host of other films to screen available through Brave New Films (bravenewfilms.org). Films are a great way to get people together so that they talk, network and become engaged. It is amazing what happens at a screening when farmers and ‘alternative’ people see each other in attendance, and they see they share similar concerns.
So... a quiet response to your quiet enquiry! We’re here when you need us.
Helping out the refugees
I love the magazine; this is my first subscription. One article that I loved and if at all possible would like an email address or contact details if you have them was It was the Boy... [about] Ngareta Rossell’s visit to Villawood [Sept – Nov 2007 edition, Vol 23].
I would like some details please as I would like to see if I could support the people at Villawood and get my friends and family to donate some clothes/toys for the children and adults.
Kristie
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Response from Ngareta Rossell, author of “It was the Boy”
I was delighted to hear that your magazine was running the Villawood stories and that Kristie, one of your readers, was interested in helping refugees. I have asked Carol Warwick at Finch [Publishing] to put her in touch with Virginia Walker at Bridge for Asylum who deals with finances and services for refugees. In the meantime Kristie may be interested to know that the small boy in the story, Shayan Badrie, was eventually released with his parents from Villawood and is doing well. Next year he will begin high school and hopefully will have put his Villawood experience behind him. He received a substantial settlement from the government by way of compensation for the treatment he received in immigration detention.
Response from Bridge for Asylum
Congratulations on your excellent magazine. I particularly appreciated your publication of Ngareta Rossell’s very moving piece, ‘It was the Boy’ from the book Acting From the Heart.
Ngareta’s involvement has been critical in getting information out to the public about what our government has been doing to asylum seekers in Villawood and other detention centres. I believe we will look back at this period in Australia’s history with great shock and shame.
Keep up the good work.
Kate Maclurcan, Coordinator
Asylum Seeker Project
Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation
www.asylumseekersfoundation.com
Another cloth convert!
This letter is to thank you for your ‘Ultimate Nappy Guide’ [Sept – Nov edition, Vol 23]. After reading in horror that every disposable nappy that has ever been used still lies in landfill today, I have finally given disposables away for good!
The move into cloth has been slightly daunting to tell the truth, but with lots of research on the internet and your guide I think I may have found a system that works! Saving me money, keeping my bub dry and healthy (not to mention, looking very cute!) and keeping a few more disposable nappies out of landfill.
Thanks again for your inspirational articles that are helping me to ‘evolve and transform to my greatest potential’. (Kindred manifesto)
Bec
Email
About porn article
Thanks so much for your fabulous magazine. The porn piece (Vol 23, Sept–Nov 2007) was really great, and a brave article to run.
Porn has become a cornerstone in our society yet we wonder why men and women have such low sexual self esteem, that it has become acceptable for men to treat women as purely objects to satisfy fantasies. Our teenage boys learn from media how to relate sexually to girls, and our girls learn what to expect and what is acceptable, and we wonder why date rape and sexual assault is becoming more common. Come on mums and dads, have that conversation with your teen and inject some sexual morality onto your streets.
John Simmons
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Fed Up studies the effects of food additives and chemicals on children's behaviour.
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Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering - The wisdom and science of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting.
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I’m An Individual!
Children have a unique constitutional type. According to the Ayurvedic theory of doshas everything in the universe is comprised of different proportions of space, air, fire, water and earth. |
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Afghan Girls Get Another Chance at Education
While many of us in the West take our education for granted there are so many who are denied the basic human right to learn in underprivileged countries, especially girls. |
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Teenagers and Sex: Are they ready?
How teenagers cope with their burgeoning hormones and their relationship to their sexuality has been a source of stress for parents in the West for 50 years. Tim Hartnett and Amy Cooper explore the issue of teenage sexuality |
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Woolworths - Coming soon to small town near you...
On Tuesday the first on January 2008, The Echo newspaper reported that Mullumbimby supermarket, Mallams, had been purchased by Woolworths who plan to build a supermarket on Station Street Mullumbimby by mid 2009. |
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View from the First Floor
“I’m going to be the talking womb,” she says. She tells me that’s her opening line. Sounds like an actor speaking about a role, doesn’t it? But Marie Burrows is no actor. In fact, she’s about as real as you get. Sure, she role-plays. But don’t we all? She |
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