The Artwork of Bob Schiavo
Author: Antarctica Journal
Protecting The World
25%: Share of the world’s population that the U.S. is legally bound to defend thanks to pacts and treaties signed with over 60 countries, according to a report from the Harvard Belfer Center.
Read morePope Francis Quote – Life With Ideals
“But—I ask you—is it better to be resigned to a life without ideals. . . or rather, . . . to seek the truth, goodness, justice, working for a world that reflects the beauty of God, even at the cost of facing the trials it may involve?” – Pope Francis
Read morePoetry – THE HAUNTED GALLERY (By Henryk Baranski)
THE HAUNTED GALLERY The motion pictures gave life to those on screen Made them immortal forever looking and then acting and then talking into our eyes So much so that far from running back from the approaching train one reaches into the screen with corpulent, lustful arms, to grab the disrobed woman, now condemned, as a ghostly […]
Read morePoem – Separate, but… (By Gary Beck)
Separate, but… The boss told me I did a good job and the extra hours I put in last week secured a big account. He couldn’t give me a raise because the economy was poor: ‘As soon as earnings pick up’… But it didn’t stop him from a luxury vacation in France and Italy. Now is it just […]
Read moreKids And Electronic Devices
Average number of hours a U.S. child aged 8 to 18 spends using an electronic device or watching television each day: 7.6
Read moreCartoon – The Cleaning Was Just More Than He Could Bear
Poem – Adultery (By DS Maolalai)
Adultery I’d bang them out, wine-drunk and excited, and send them off to magazines. I had two lists; ones which liked me and ones I liked, and I’d fire them unedited like a shotgun scaring birds. each one 5 times to 5 different places. then I’d wait for any to come back. in general it started with rejections; […]
Read moreSimone Weiss Quote – Sins
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.” – Simone Weiss
Read moreFifth of world’s food lost to waste and over-eating
Almost one-fifth of world’s food lost to waste and over-eating, a study suggests. The world population consumes around 10 per cent more food than it needs, while almost nine per cent of food lost to waste or left to spoil, researchers say. Efforts to reduce the billions of tonnes lost could improve global food security — ensuring everyone has access […]
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