What's Going On?
Bill Wittur Introduction Covid, right? Not just the professionals are holed up in their houses and apartments creating multiple albums and soundtracks of this ‘pandemic nightmare’ (and I’m SO glad they are – we need reflection now on what’s happening now), but amateurs are joining the ranks as well, hoping to take a kick at the songwriting can. Like me. My quest to implement the ‘perfect home studio’ started a while ago, …
“An Extinction Level Event” – Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Mindy in ‘Don’t Look Up‘ “The movie is, in my view, a powerful demolition of the grotesque failures of public life. And the sector whose failures are most brutally exposed is the MEDIA.” – George Monbiot I Can See Clearly Now … What would you do if you could see the future? In Greek mythology, Cassandra, daughter to Priam and Hecuba …
Economics forms the philosophical rationale for our current state of managing our planet. But if it’s based on irrational arguments, what’s it worth and should we consider a new point of view?
NINE years. NINE years – about 3,000 days – is all we have to make serious corrections to our ways of living before we pass a point of no return and bring ruin to this great, beautiful, once-in-a-universe we call planet earth. This should be alarming to everyone. It’s not. We’re not changing our habits fast enough. Like so many people around the world, I personally feel like we’re either …
The ‘holiday’ period represents a long history of transition from an old year into a new one. In the western world, it traditionally starts with Winter Solstice (although there are many other observations that take place earlier), but opens up a period of time when many cultures celebrate the ‘resurrection of the sun’. As the year winds down, what are your resolutions, assuming you get sucked up into that kind of thinking at this time of year?