That voted to Not delist the gray wolf from the endangered list.

Bernie is all kinds of awesome.

Bernie's supporters say "feel the Bern!" etc. but strangely, I'm finding that I'm feeling more comfortable as I learn more.
Like, hey, OK!
This movement is totally unexpected!
This movement is rewriting the rules!

And wow, it's so comforting for me to realize that Bernie Sanders has a solid history, has proven depth, to show that it isn't just sound bytes in campaign rhetoric, to be forgotten the instant the campaign is over.

I like it too that he openly refers to himself as a "longtime supporter of animal rights." Most politicians would be too scared to identify themselves in that way.

suggest you crosspost this in the Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights group. Or, if you don't mind, I will, OK? Let me know.

out there; I'm glad to see it.

I honestly believe the next decade has the distinct probability of being our last real window to meaningfully address climate change.

It is a ridiculously Herculean task but inaction isn't an option, for me.

For some reason I have only ever felt truly comfortable when I am alone in the wilderness. The things that bring me the most happiness and wonder on this world, the animals and trees and plants and insects I consider some of my dearest friends and closest confidants. To have to sit idly and watch them suffer, shrink and vanish from existence, pains me terribly. In ways those who live out lives in concrete and steel forests and climate controlled condos can never quite grasp. Only curiously glanced at articles about Polar Bears eating Dolphins and then onto the stock quotes.

And maybe it is a lost cause but as one of my heroes told me long ago on the silver screen, sometimes they are the only causes worth fighting for.

I grew up on the west coast and I long for the deserts, forests, canyons and mountains of California. I felt a close connection to the animals there and was involved in efforts to protect them. There is nothing like the smell of the sage in the sage and scrub canyons near to where I lived. The sacred is hard to express, but I can say that that is where I find it.

I always liked to mix working on big causes where failure is a real possibility with working on little causes (like volunteering in an animal shelter, or simply helping out a lost dog get home) where success is almost guaranteed.

I need to do more of that now in Maryland. I feel like I have been corrupted a bit by career and such.

For the eternal struggle against the dying of the light.

We can do this.