“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!” YearsCareWantedMotherDifficultGrowingHairYears AgoLet MeSticksCurlsPerms Author:Chloe Sevigny
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on by so many civilians. Regardless of what we think about a conflict, we must always honor and be grateful for those men and women who serve.” ThinkingMenYearsBelieveI BelieveGrowingReturnHonorConflictMembersMen And WomenYears AgoConnectionsStrongerGratefulPlusCombatBe GratefulCiviliansSpitGrowing Stronger Author:Lee Zeldin
“Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.” IfsWayYearsSufferingAnimalGrowing UpGrowingYears AgoHorribleVideoMeatHumaneKosher Author:Carol Leifer
“We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.” ThinkingYearsKindRealSpiritualMy OwnPoorStruggleGrowing UpPathTeacherGrowingTeachingTaughtDevelopmentNeededProveYears AgoPsychicsAllegianceSpiritual Path Author:Echo Bodine
“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidNationsUnitedStudyFiveFourGrowingCarPlanetsIndustryEatingYears AgoMeatFive YearsKillersScrewsUnited NationsOur PlanetTransportationHybridHamburgersMeat EatingMeat IndustryHybrid Cars Author:Maggie Q
“At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.” PeopleIfsWayYearsChildrenCountryStatesGrowing UpMeditationGrowingSeeingCreationYears AgoOnenessTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Alice Walker
“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.” YearsUsedGrowsProcessWonderGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpYears AgoSevenI RealizedSeven YearsOngoing Book:Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth Source: Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth