In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of crap going on the world, and most of it stems from hate, bigotry and mindless labeling. Our online magazine, Vivacini, was born because we wanted to help build a community of open, tolerant and caring readers . . . people who not only care about the communities they live in, but about the whole planet and all its inhabitants. Our mission at Vivacini is to “BUILD BRIDGES OF TRUST AND...

 Two people who will always be dear to me: my mom and my first boyfriend.   I recently heard “through the grapevine” that because of one picture I had reposted on Facebook, a certain group of women in a local business organization have concluded that I hate men.  These are women I know personally and who (I thought) knew me.  But I tend to be a little naive because I forget that not everyone in this world  is sincere and...

I just completed a little quiz via Monroe Institute to determine which side of my brain is dominant.   Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others. Left Brain Dominance: (5) Right Brain Dominance: (13) Right Brain/ Left Brain...

    On a windswept plain between two insignificant villages in New Mexico stand  lines of magnificent radio telescopes. With only the company of a handful of engineers and operators,  as well as some  free-spirited antelope and coyotes, these sentinels rotate in tandem to listen to the breathing of an awesome universe and to map the distant reaches of space. It’s quiet there, except for the intermittent purring of the motors...

    How many times are we told that change is a part of life.  You can’t grow without change.  And yet we are so resistant to it.  Fight as we may, it still happens.  As life does. Sometimes it’s stormy and dramatic and literally knocks us off our feet.  At other times, it comes quietly, softly and hardly discernible, much like a changing season in a desert. The seasons of the year always remind me to cherish the day...

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