Bubbe Wisdom - Unraveling the threads of life. A blog by Louise Silk.
No More Stuff by LouiseSilkBefore you get too carried away with your holiday shopping take a look at Annie Leonard’s video The Story of Stuff about the way we make, use and throw away lots and lots of stuff. Then ta...
The 1% Win Again by LouiseSilk"Almost without exception, every proposal put forth by GOP lawmakers and presidential candidates is intended to preserve or expand tax privileges for the wealthiest Americans. Most of their plans...
The Free Will To Choose Good by LouiseSilkThe strongest principle of growth lies in human ch oice. George Eliot The laws of our universe create many random acts of nature that are outside our control, but within those limits, ther...
Not Food Glorious Food by LouiseSilkSouthside’s LA Fitness is scheduled to open in a couple of weeks. I guess the 1000 pre-members have never read Gary Taube ’s Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It. Despite all eff...
Advice by LouiseSilkfrom The Instruction Manual For Receiving God ; Pg. 85 By Jason Shulman Ultimately, healing involves unlearning the patterns that block our natural openheartedness from shining forth....
Layers Beget Layers by LouiseSilkOn sight I was immediately drawn in to this colorful photo of a place called Kolkata. It was the lead photo on Filthy Gorgeous by Alex Vadukul in the travel section of Today’s Times Magazine. ...
Dance of the People by LouiseSilkPublic Television’s American Masters did it again with the riveting documentary: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man . Through the film, we follow Jones’s process to incorporate his childhood, artistic j...
God is a Verb by LouiseSilkGod is a Verb By R. Buckminster Fuller ; Whole Earth Catalog ; Winter 1998 I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably th...
Free Bubbe, Mandela, and the 99% by LouiseSilkMy almost four-year-old granddaughter is constantly asking questions about jail. In an effort to change her focus from people who are imprisoned for doing bad things, my son, Eli, informed her th...
Yogi's Choice for 11/11/11 by LouiseSilkThis Friday, November 11, 2011, three 11s will align for the first time in a century. What does it mean? Could it be about people’s fear of coincidences surrounding the number as portrayed in t...