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September 3, 2014

Class and Health

We have all heard the term “stressed out,” and most of us feel thusly quite often. We also know that stress can impact our long term health in insidious ways, and is often linked to many of the most common diseases people our prone to in the twenty-first century – including heart disease, diabetes, anxiety, Continue reading

Community healing, Human rights, New Hampshire, skyestephenson, social justice

September 3, 2014

Apu Mt. Monadnock

In the central Andes, where the second highest mountain chain makes their imposing presence viscerally felt, the indigenous people have since time immemorial venerated their mountain peaks. Quechua-speakers (the language of the Inca Empire) call them Apus. Certain Apus are designated sacred mountain peaks, based upon teachings of the wise ones. Typically these sacred Apus Continue reading

Community healing, indigenous wisdom, inspirational thoughts, latin america, New Hampshire, Shamanism, skyestephenson, spirits of place, spirituality

September 3, 2014

Our Heroin Problem

My monthly article will continue Dr. Julian Jones’ recent column that discussed the heroin problems in our area. My intention is to contribute to the mounting media focus on the local heroin problem, in the hope that bringing this issue “out of the closet” and “into the forefront” of our community focus may help some Continue reading

Community healing, drug, healing, Human rights, mental illness, New Hampshire, skyestephenson, social justice

April 26, 2013

A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Published in the Monadnock Shopper February 2013

I write from Manchester. Manchester England. The town for which the largest city in New Hampshire is named. Perhaps more importantly Manchester, England is where the industrial revolution began. Here in this midland city mechanized textile mills were first introduced; cotton grown by slaves from the south of the United States and elsewhere was turned Continue reading

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