“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ~Ian Maclaren A friend recently told me a story about her mother that stayed with me. They walk together some evenings around her mom’s apartment building—part exercise, part ritual. Her mom doesn’t enjoy small talk. When they pass people in the building, she usually…
“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.” ~S. N. Goenka I recently completed my third Vipassana meditation course. There is a moment at the beginning of the course when you surrender your phone (and receive it back at…
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate.” ~Anthon St. Maarten There are some words that get painfully etched into our memories as if with a red-hot poker. For me, growing up,…
“Forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.” ~Sue Monk Kidd Sometimes I hear the word “forgiveness” and I cringe. I’ve been wrestling with this all year because I realized something really uncomfortable: When I look back at those moments where I felt betrayed,…
“Sometimes people wound us because they’re wounded and tell us we’re broken because that’s how they feel, but we don’t have to believe them.” ~Lori Deschene Age and healing don’t make you invulnerable to moments that can bring you back to the kind of trauma you experienced as a child. It doesn’t mean that you’re…
For millennia, the Middle East’s water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story. The post The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s…
An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works. The post Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business appeared first on Green Prophet. Sweet, nut-filled Haman’s Fingers, a Purim treat. The Purim holiday is coming up next week: this year, 2026, it…
A large sperm whale has washed ashore on Zikim Beach in southern Israel, marking only the eighth documented case of its kind along the country’s Mediterranean coast since monitoring began. The post Endangered sperm whale washes ashore in southern Israel appeared first on Green Prophet. Sweet, nut-filled Haman’s Fingers, a Purim treat. The Purim holiday…
Dubai has announced this month that they will be working with Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build tunnels in Dubai. The post The Boring Company to add a Dubai loop appeared first on Green Prophet. Sweet, nut-filled Haman’s Fingers, a Purim treat. The Purim holiday is coming up next week: this year, 2026, it occurs…
Neom, a bombastic collection of futuristic cities and resorts, has flopped as Saudi oil prices roll back reality. The Saudi plan of hosting the 2029 Asian games to be held at Trojena, a ski report in the desert, has been cancelled. The post Saudi Arabia cancels the Asian games at Neom’s Trojena appeared first on…
