510EQZWJA8L.jpg (390×500) Hyperwall-2.jpg (713×475) 538303_453920244625765_1980136629_n.jpg (375×500) Economics of Happiness. Megan Quinn Bachman What if a global economy awash in cheap, consumer goods—our chief pursuit over the last half century—has not made us happier? And what if our economy, with its pinhole focus on growth and creating financial wealth, was in fact undermining our pursuit of healthy, productive, meaningful lives? Wouldn’t it make sense to strike out another path? That’s the message of organizers of the three-day Economics of Happiness conference next week in California on economic localization as an alternative to globalization, which is fossil fuel-dependent, environmentally-destructive and psychologically-damaging. Simply put, the goal is “small-scale on a large-scale,” said organizer Kristen Steele of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, the group putting on the event March 23-25 in Berkeley near San Francisco.
“Our intention was to get together a really international group to emphasize that economic localization requires global cooperation,” Steele said. s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpf904fpR1qb8vpuo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1329016601&Signature=iLE3KFlZHE9%2BL5vtKwPtsyMZClA%3D. Keeping Romance Alive. My wife once told me she felt I wasn't particularly warm. She rarely saw me hug anyone, I rarely took her hand spontaneously, or rubbed her back or nuzzled her neck. And she very much wanted those things, she said. She needed to feel a sense of connection between us, a sense that we were more than just two people co-habitating in a house or co-parenting a child.
And she didn't. I wasn't exactly shocked to hear this from her, but neither did I entirely agree. "But I can tell you don't feel comfortable doing it," she told me. "How can you tell how I'm feeling? " "I just can. " This response irritated me, not because she was presuming to know me better than I know myself, but rather because, I realized, she was right. I to be a warmer person. What I realized as I reflected on her complaint about me was that I'd come to view touching as a way not to express romantic feelings but rather as a way to . So I decided to make seeing my wife itself a trigger. And yet I did. Splitscreen: A Love Story.
Nonjudgment.jpg (600×422) Children Full of Life: Moving documentary about kids and their homeroom teacher.