How do we think about the land we live on?
This week we hosted a webinar, “Learning and Teaching about Indigenous Cultures, Languages, and Territories,” with Christine McRae from Native Land Digital. We were excited to learn that close to 900 people registered!
MALAPROPS BOOKSTORE Presents Shelf Awareness, Kids Reading & Ticketed Events
Our doors are closed but our hearts are always open to our amazing community! We are working daily to fill online orders so you can stay home and stay safe with good books.
We have resumed curbside pickup and are offering limited in-person shopping by appointment. Please visit malaprops.com for important details. Thank you for your support!
Please visit malaprops.com for details. Thank you for your support!
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES 10th Annual Justice Forum October 1
Have you registered for Pisgah Legal’s 10th Annual Justice Forum yet? It’s not too late! This year’s Forum features Clint Smith, Ph.D., a writer, teacher and advocate for racial justice. We are excited to bring Clint’s voice, knowledge and perspective to Asheville and Western North Carolina as we seek to better understand the historical, political and sociological factors that have brought us to this moment of change for our country and our mountain communities. Read more about the event in this Asheville Citizen-Times article.
THE SIMPLE MONEY MINUTE – A Little Labor Day Magic
You might have read my love story about work last week and rolled your eyes. Work? Gross! Work sucks! I hate to work!
If that describes you, then today’s bit of sunshine is for you.
Unless you are a rich socialite like Paris Hilton, work is a necessity. Making a living so we can support ourselves and our families and have a little bit of leisure once in awhile is kind of how the world works.
Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight climate change and biodiversity loss – we’ve mapped the key places to do it
Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science and Professor, Arizona State University
THE STATE OF THINGS | Blue Ridge Public Radio
WUNC’s flagship program, “The State of Things” covers many diverse issues and topics in North Carolina. Host Frank Stasio talks with authors, musicians, politicians, policymakers and everyday citizens about subjects that matter to North Carolinians. The program can now be heard in Western North Carolina, M – F from noon to 1, and a rebroadcast at 8 on BPR News, thanks to an ongoing partnership between Blue Ridge Public Radio and WUNC, headquartered in Chapel Hill.
The State of Things is a live show that welcomes comments, feedback and questions from listeners. Call 1.877.962.9862, email sot@wunc.org, or tweet @state_of_things. Follow The State of Things on Facebook or Tumblr.
The OnBeing Project,“Your one wild and precious life”
As fall begins to drift in, I’m called back to these lines in Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day”:
“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
How to Make Your Garden a Sustainable Habitat
There’s no getting away from the fact that the environment is on everyone’s minds these days—we are all trying to do our bit to help save it. If you are someone who has a garden, you’re in a unique position to be able to do even more to help save the planet and do more for environmental eco-systems.
Of course, a lot of gardening enthusiasts aren’t too sure what eco-friendly garden activity actually looks like. If you’re someone who is passionate about doing their bit for the environment but isn’t sure what building a sustainable garden looks like, then you might be feeling a little confused and unsure regarding the steps that you need to take in order to create a sustainable habitat in your garden.
ARE YOU READY TO VOTE? Are your friends/colleagues/family informed?
WISE FROM WITHIN: An Important Book to Help Schools Open Again
Let’s make the first class the science of self-care. These morning announcements will help and heal.
How many yogas are there really? from Prama Institute and Wellness Center
(The topics in this blog are the kind of philosophical ideas the author will discuss in the online course Yoga to Live By, starting October 14 to November 11. For more information, click here)
In the West, yoga is often synonymous with posture practice, with various forms of Hatha Yoga. In its homeland India, a yogi can be anyone from a meditating swami to a ganja smoking sadhu, anyone from an ochre-clad Tantric to a Bhakti-singing ecstatic to someone practicing yoga in an upper-class studio in New Delhi.
In its essential purity, yoga is rooted in its body practices, in its transcendent mental outlook, and in its inclusive spirituality. Yoga is body-centered, mind-expanding, and spiritually uplifting. Yoga is not either/or—yoga is yes/and.
The Legendary Language of the Appalachian “Holler”
Is the unique Appalachian dialect the preserved language of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?
ANIMAL HAVEN of ASHEVILLE
WE ARE A 501(C)3 ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION AND TEN-ACRE SANCTUARY IN EAST ASHEVILLE
Founded in May of 2000 by Barbara Bellows and Trina Hudson, Animal Haven of Asheville rescues and rehabilitates not only domestic animals but farm animals as well. In addition to providing food, shelter and veterinary care to homeless and abused animals, we are also a lifetime home for those not adopted.
FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONIST ARTWORK – Joyce Thornburg
RAW AND INTUITIVE
I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!
My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.
OnTrack Financial’s Resource Digest September 10, 2020
Information is changing rapidly as programs develop. For the most up-to-date information on a topic discussed in a Resource Digest, please visit this page where we will list any updates to information we have previously shared.
SHE THE PEOPLE – Creating a Politics We Have Not Seen
We believe in a politics grounded in love, justice, and belonging. Our aim is to inspire the hearts and minds of everyday people, and turn non-voters into voters. We invite women of color to come together in person and online to tell our stories, host our people, and build community. Our network will continue to grow and live well beyond any one election and ensure that women of color will never be taken for granted again in elections.
TREE CANOPY PROTECTION ORDINANCE: September Events and Updates – City of Asheville
On September 8th, the Asheville City Council will vote on approval of an amendment to a city ordinance called, “Tree Canopy Protection Ordinance.” Thanks in part to community support for the ordinance amendment in the shape of hundreds of emails and phone calls to City Council members, it looks like passage of the ordinance amendment is likely.
ELECTROSTATIC DISINFECTING kills 99.99% of viruses, bacteria, fungi – Areno Property Management Solutions, LLC
I HAVE A SECRET – Grateful Steps Foundation New Arrival
Grateful Steps Publishing House is pleased to announce the arrival of I Have a Secret, a new book by Asheville author, Andrew Barnett. I Have a Secret honors the struggle of children who have felt they must not tell others about the abuse that has been done to them by adults.
Ladies’ Night at the DNC
By Sady Doyle in Medium
Kamala Harris’ big night was also the Democrats’ invocation of girl power
In the hours before the Democratic National Convention began on Wednesday, all I could think of was that stupid glass ceiling.
You know the one: Hillary Clinton put 18 million metaphorical cracks in it back in 2008. Her face symbolically shattered it at the 2016 convention. It hung over everyone’s head at the Javits Center on the night of Clinton’s presumed victory, until state after state turned red and those almighty symbolic roof panels started to feel more like a cruel joke: Nope, not broken.