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She decided to boycott mainstream news, fear, peer pressure, political platitudes, and multi-billion dollar corporations. She bought local, loved on her family, thought a lot, and walked free.

Pretend you are a sailboat, and imagine the journeys you will take. No self-respecting sailboat is content to stay in the harbor because it’s “safe.” Better to take a chance and live.

It is possible for humans and nature to coexist; we have done so for untold years. It’s just that both sides have to agree to not wipe out the other for the sake of massive profits for an elite group of parasites and continuously increased income to the shareholders.

It’s easy to get swept along by the views of public opinion, but before we do, it’s wise to reflect that public opinion is more realistically shaped by publicity makers -- politicians and media – than it is by the public. Stop and give serious time to your own thoughts.

Nobody likes to be fooled. But when we are, the best course is to admit we fell for a lie, identify those who put forth the lie, and walk onward, no longer listening to the prevaricators.

The difference between caution and fear is that caution goes out, alert to danger and prepared to meet it, while fear doesn't go out at all. A harbor is a refuge when you are free to leave it, a prison when you are not.

When something happens a lot, it doesn’t make it normal; it just makes it common. And when it suddenly starts happening a lot when it didn’t before, it’s abnormally common.

I appreciate the fact checkers because they simplify things: if they say something is true, I know that it isn't; and if they say it isn't, then I know that it is.

Shrugging our shoulders and saying, “It’s not up to me. People above me and smarter than me make the decisions,” is an abdication of ethical and intellectual responsibility. When individuals do this, tyrants rule. When individuals stand up for truth, goodness prevails.

Truth has power. It doesn’t buy media or politicians, or push cheap products on consumers. But it speaks goodness, life, light, freedom, and it always, eventually, prevails.