E.G. Alaraj grew up in the magical place that every child knows, where ideas look like pictures drawn from crayons and sound like stories from long ago and far away. The youngest of six girls in a homeschool family, she spent her childhood with her nose in storybooks, art books, music books, notebooks and trouble—especially trouble. In fact, she thinks trouble and imagination are best friends.
Our industrial societies are not creating life; they’re mutilating it. Existential problems often require the simplest solutions. Here are a few:
health: drink clean water and get plenty of sunshine and exercise
environment: plant trees. They cool the planet and purify the air.
social: build trust with smiles, eye contact, and good words.
Do our societies make it easier or harder for us to instill these habits? Can we trust that our leaders are working toward these goals? Are the people in charge supporting life or mutilating it for power and profit?
