The art of knowing

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.~ Rumi

Finding Jesus in the Tear Gas

“During the day, MDP Circle is a dreamy little slice of what could be without the tyrannical hand of the state. At night, the police gas and shoot anyone gathered there. The oscillation between joy and terror is exhausting.” I was baptized in an evangelical church as an infant. We don’t sprinkle or submerge, it’s…

We are entering an era of pandemics – it will end only when we protect the rainforest

Reducing deforestation and the exploitation of nature are the first steps in breaking the chain of ailment emergence. In late 2013, in the village of Meliandou in rural Guinea, a group of children playing near a hollow tree frightened a small colony of bats hiding inside. Scientists guess that Emile Ouamouno, who later became the…