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By Mr. Alvarez | Climate Change Community LLC Say His Name: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo On the morning of July 7, 2026, at about 6:50 a.m., a 52-year-old man named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Canal Street, in Houston's East End — a historically Latino... Continue Reading →
Emotional growth is not about becoming less sensitive. It is about becoming more aware, more responsible, and more intentional. Emotional maturity rarely arrives all at once. It develops through repeated moments of awareness: noticing what is happening inside us, understanding why it matters, and choosing a response that reflects the person we want to become.... Continue Reading →
A reflection on our Semiquincentennial, the noise that's trying to drown out our goodness, and the deeper emergency waiting on the other side of our attention. Two hundred and fifty years. That's a long time for a nation to keep arguing with itself about who it wants to be. Today, on this Fourth of July,... Continue Reading →
Opening: One Clave, Many Hands Before any of the data or the history, let me start where I actually come from. I'm a Boricua rumbero from New York. Put a pair of congas in front of me and something old wakes up in my hands. Here is what a lifetime inside this music has taught... Continue Reading →
The phrase we all may be looking for at this moment in history is intimidation, menacing behavior, harassment, or fear-based coercion. Here is three separate polished addendums in my own voice. Yes, AI enhanced, but in my own voice. Addendum 1: Regarding Two Recent Public Experiences Recently, I experienced two separate public incidents where I... Continue Reading →
A Problem the Brain Was Never Built to Hold The Climate and Ecological Emergency was never a simple problem, and it will never yield to a simple slogan. It is a living system — a knot of feedback loops, delayed consequences, political inertia, economic resistance, and the stubborn architecture of human psychology. We are not... Continue Reading →
A message to every young person about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Imagine waking up to clean air, drinking water you never have to worry about, eating food grown in healthy soil, and looking out at a world full of life — forests, rivers, animals, and people all thriving together. That should not be a... Continue Reading →
What History's Breaking Points Teach Us About Adaptive Resiliency Part 1 — Adaptive-Resiliency – Part II will be posted Friday night at the new Adaptive Resiliency site. Version One — For the Community A lot of people are tired right now. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that settles into your... Continue Reading →
Until Everyone Is Safe: World Refugee Day, Our Children's Worries, and the Choice We Still Have The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer Today is June 20th. World Refugee Day. And this one is not like the others. This year marks... Continue Reading →
In an Age of Information, Context Is Intelligence Why understanding — not data — is the real skill of our time We are living through the most information-rich moment in human history. About twenty years ago, the entire world produced roughly two zettabytes of data in a year. Today we produce well over a hundred... Continue Reading →
A Flag Day reflection on power, conscience, and the courage to be humanitarian first Today is Flag Day. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved that the new nation would carry thirteen stripes and thirteen stars in a blue field — what they called a new constellation. Two years earlier, on June 14,... Continue Reading →
