The intelligence, complexity and order of even a single cell rivals that of a large modern city.
The human body is an unfathomable and miraculous microcosm of divine order.
To abuse the gift of life and one's own precious body is a form of extreme arrogance and self-hatred.
My body had become an entombment of fat covering the pain and loneliness of a broken heart and spirit.
I was raised in a culture of quietly "polite" judgments; a pressure-cooker of seething hatred, prejudice, violence and ignorance.
How we produce and consume is really about how we relate to the world, to other people and to ourselves.
Cheap food and goods are dangerous illusions that do not exist. What you don't pay at the checkout, you pay at the hospital.
The propaganda spear-point of corporate conquest is often the promise of convenient, consistent and cheap goods and services.
Selfish and irresponsible corporations are subsidizing their profits with our losses in the form of our anguish, pain, suffering and sometimes death.
Our consuming predilections are often encouraged by irresponsible corporations who wish to realize a profit even if it hurts their customers.