my care2
make a difference

community & fun

people

12 million members making a difference

 
 

Craig Pittman
Add as friend
Introduce yourself
Invite to group
Send green star
"changing the world in my own small way"

Port Hope, Canada
male, age 63
committed relationship
Speaks: English
Joined Dec 18, 2000
What I Want to Do: help create a kinder world
Causes: eating local produce, low impact living, Ecology of the Planet, anti globalisation, protection of wildlife, Protection of the Environment, Affirmative Action, affordable housing, finance reform, human rights, sustainable development, Peace &amp, amp, Nonviolence
Activities: off-grid living, tennis, cross-country skiing, cooking, wilderness canoeing, reading, backpacking, music


 
My Page Billboard
Mitaku Oyasin - We Are All Related

I enjoy walking the path less travelled, resist the idea of having to march to any drummer different or otherwise and would, ideally, like to see a world without political borders.
Its likely, I am seen by those who know me as a work in progress.  I suppose one could also interpret this to mean that I am a collection of inconsistencies. 
In my view globalization is not a good thing unless you happen to be a Corporation, that the average citizen has very little control in how their Country is run but that it is possible to effect positive change through platforms such as this.  Heck, like me, I guess the World is a work in progress.

NEW FRIENDS: I enjoy intereacting with all my friends on a regular basis. Unfortunately the number of friends currently exceeds my abiliity to communicate meaningfully with all of them.  So please, if you would like to be a friend in the active sense, send along an introduction.

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ


"Life....
It is the flash of a firefly in the night,
the breath of a buffalo in the winter.
It is the little shadow, which runs across
the grass, and loses itself in the sunset...."

 -- Crowfoot
Blackfeet Elder


"Thou canst not disturb a flower without troubling a star."  ~Francis Thompson


Alice came to a fork in the road.  "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain


"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."

-- Gaylord Nelson, former Governor of Wisconsin and co-founder of Earth Day

I am a part of all that I have met.  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson


When Darkness Falls

Einstein.jpg Albert Einstein Quote image by jennifergraseck

CINNAMON PEELER by Michael Ondaatje

If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.

Your breasts and shoulders would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon.

Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture
neighbour to your hair
or the crease
that cuts your back. This ankle.
You will be known among strangers
as the cinnamon peeler's wife.

I could hardly glance at you
before marriage
never touch you
�your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.
I buried my hands
in saffron, disguised them
over smoking tar,
helped the honey gatherers . . .

When we swam once
I touched you in water
and our bodies remained free,
you could hold me and be blind of smell.
You climbed the bank and said

this is how you touch other women
the grass cutter's wife, the lime burner's daughter.
And you searched your arms
for the missing perfume

and knew

what good is it
to be the lime burner's daughter
left with no trace
as if not spoken to in the act of love
as if wounded without the pleasure of a scar.

You touched
your belly to my hands
in the dry air and said
I am the cinnamon
peeler's wife. Smell me


By Candlelight

This is winter, this is night, small love ---
A sort of black horsehair,
A rough, dumb country stuff
Steeled with the sheen
Of what green stars can make it to our gate.
I hold you in my arm.
It is very late.
The dull bells tongue the hour.
The mirror floats us at one candle power.




This is the fluid in which we meet each other,
This haloey radiance that seems to breathe
And lets our shadows wither
Only to blow
Them huge again, violent giants on the wall.
One match scratch makes you real.
At first the candle will not bloom at all ---
It snuffs its bud to almost nothing, to a dull blue dud.




I hold my breath until you creak to life,
Balled hedgehog,
Small and cross. The yellow knife
Grows tall. You clutch your bars.
My singing makes you roar.
I rock you like a boat
Across the Indian carpet, the cold floor,
While the brass man
Kneels, back bent as best he can




Hefting his white pillar with the light
That keeps the sky at bay,
The sack of black! It is everywhere, tight, tight!
He is all yours, the little brassy Atlas ---
Poor heirloom, all you have
At his heels a pile of five brass cannonballs,
No child, no wife.
Five balls! Five bright brass balls!
To juggle with, my love when the sky falls.

Sylvia Plath




























 
































http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
 
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow
to keep an appointment with a beech-tree,
or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
-  Henry David Thoreau,  1817 - 1862







When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy


     NO Deep integration!  




   
    

Learn about the campaign to stop the seal hunt at www.protectseals.org.







Picture of Rays of Sunshine against a dramatic black sky - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.com


The Goodness of Lifeby Ralph Marston

Though there is much
to be concerned about,
there is far, far more
for which to be thankful.

Though life's goodness can
at times be overshadowed,
it is never outweighed.

For every single act
that is senselessly destructive,
there are thousands more small, quiet acts
of love, kindness and compassion.

For every person who seeks to hurt,
there are many, many more who
devote their lives to helping and to healing.

There is a goodness to life
that cannot be denied.

In the most magnificent vistas
and in the smallest details,
look closely,
for that goodness always
comes shining through.

There is no limit
to the goodness of life.
It grows more abundant
with each new encounter.
The more you experience and
appreciate the goodness of life
the more there is to be lived.

Even when the cold winds blow
and the world seems to be covered in foggy shadows,
the goodness of life lives on.
Open your eyes,
open your heart,
and you will see that
goodness everywhere.

Though the goodness of life
seems at times to suffer setbacks,
it always endures.

For in the darkest moments
it becomes vividly clear
that life is a priceless treasure.

And so the goodness of life
is made even stronger
by the very things
that would oppose it.

Time and time again
when you feared it was gone forever
you found that
the goodness of life
was really only
a moment away.

Around the next corner
Inside every moment
The goodness of life
Is there to surprise and delight you

Take a moment to let the goodness of life
touch your spirit and calm your thoughts.
Then, share your good fortune with another.
For the goodness of life grows
more and more magnificent
each time it is given away.

Though the problems constantly
scream for attention
and the conflicts appear
to rage ever stronger,
the goodness of life grows stronger still,
quietly, peacefully,
with more purpose and meaning
than ever before.

Copyright © 2004 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

















 
Inherited wealth - the  market place does not reward skills on the basis of social usefulness.

Excess profit = greed ie. profit over ethics
and compassion - the  fraudulent distortion of human needs and aspirations.    
 
Collective action is becoming out of reach thus disempowering the majority of the population  

Nortel's John Roth earned more than 1,000 nurses as he steered the Company towards virtual collapse

Progressive taxation re-establishes the moral authority over the market place. - sharing and reciprocity   

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."  Keynes   

"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."   
Nohm  Chomsky                                                                                                                                                                                       



    

                                                    



www.united-for-peace.org   
There is a peaceful solution to everything
www.united-for-peace.org

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/495764839 
Petition to the United Nations to end the War




"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!  Live the life you've imagined.  As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."   Henry David Thoreau 

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
Even while the earth sleeps we travel.
We are seeds of the tenacious plant,
and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and scattered".
  Kahlil Gibran



"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

























Dwight D. Eisenhower

"As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." : U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 - (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) - Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-----torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-----which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. ...The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." : George Orwell 

"I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." - Admiral Gene LaRocque.


"Because we are the biggest beneficiaries of globalization we are unwittingly putting enormous pressure on the rest of the world ... producing a powerful backlash from all those brutalized or left behind ... The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist - McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.  And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force and Marine Corps."  - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

"
"These deals aren't about trade.  They're about the right of these guys to do business the way they want, wherever they want."
- Eugen
Whelan, Canada's former Agricultural Minister

Noam Chomsky, Propaganda quote  






For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.



  Infamous Quote from Hermann Goering 




"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."





http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/temp/index.asp

http://www.ifg.org/  International Forum on Globalization

http://www.canadians.org/  Council of Canadians

 




"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate, yes, it can even inspire.  But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box"-Edward R. Murrow,
talking about TV ... and why not the Internet?

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Dwight D. Eisenhoweer - 34th U.S. President of the U.S.
who coined the phrase "military/industrial complex"  he may very well have bee referencing this warning to Canadians as well.



tree holding the earth.jpg

~~PLANT A SEED GROW A FOREST FOR MOTHER NATURE AND HER ANIMALS~~








photo
 
Personal Professional Contact Singles
Joined Dec 18, 2000 Activist Aspirations Enthusiastic 
Here for Meeting Friends, Support a Cause 
Group Host of
Michael Moore/People Power! (70) Sustainable Living (142)
Tennis Enthusiasts (143)
Groups CANADIANS PROACTIVE & GLOBAL CITIZENS, Care2 Feedback and Suggestions, Healthy Living Network, Michael Moore/People Power!, Off the Beaten Path, Petes Political Book Club, Sustainable Living, Tennis Enthusiasts
Hometown Port Hope 
Homepage http://lochtaen@hotmail.com  
Birthday Dec 21, 1946  
Languages English  
About Me good natured, laid back, guardedly optimistic about life in general, try to maintain a good sense of humour, open to new concepts, a wee bit difficult to live with as I spent most of my life working and living alone in isolated areas. ie. egocentric when it comes to my lifestyle.
  Introduce yourself to Craig
  Lifestyle
Pets Keegers and Jazz  
Activist Aspirations Enthusiastic
Political Leaning Very Liberal
Religions Earth Religions  
Eating Habits Eat Healthy yet Enjoy Everything  
Wild Fact About Me I love wild winter storms and to walk and make love in the rain.
My Philosophy tolerance for the beliefs of others
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief" - G. Spence
What Gives Me Hope the light spirit of humanity
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by resign - that's the anarchist in me speaking
What/who changed my life and why Walden Pond, because it reinforced my notion to live simply and to follow my own path.
What Bugs Me apathy and broccoli  
Passions free thinking, new concepts  
Inspirations each new day and the touch of a lover  
What Scares Me ignorance and injustice  
  Favorites
Role Models Romeo Dallaire, Bono, Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau  
Quotation "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interests wilderness, the exchange of ideas, out-of-the-box concepts  
Books love to read, Jane Eyre, books by Jane Austen, books of George Eliot, any book by Noam Chomsky, The Prophet, social justice, political science, sociologly, philosophy, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Pilgrim At Tinkers Creek, Heart of Darkness, Catcher In the Rye, Ten Ye  
Music Rednex, Rossini, Mozart, Celtic music, The Stones, Tracy Chapman, Nickelback, Leonard Cohen, Lareena McKennitt  
Movies Gladiator, The Fountain, The Piano, Snatch, The Big Laboski, Pulp Fiction, Master and Commander, Cold Mountain, The Notebook, Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, Field of Dreams, The Best Years of Our Lives, Always  
TV Shows don't have a TV  
Favorite Foods eggs benedict, quiche, trifle, Yorkshire pudding, grapes, blueberry pie, home-made bread, Thai cooking  
Favorite Places Scotland, Bali, any wilderness place  
Can't Live Without intelligent dialogue, passion, books, wilderness, laughter, love, friends  
  Introduce yourself to Craig
 
Friends of Craig

Ana M.
Astrid D.
Tony F.
Edith N.
Daria W.

View all: 29 friends
Craig's Photos

Port Hope 024.jpg
Port Hope 019.jpg
more of the guys
51 photos, 5 albums »
My Video    
Loading video...
My Butterfly Rewards
I’ve earned 2,276 Butterfly Credits
Kudos
13 New Green Stars, 915 Total Send green star »
 

Janice G. (428) 		Testimonial on Jul 4, 2007
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Praying for peace for all people
Comment Board
Viewing 20 of 556: view all | add a comment »
Dec 22, 2009 1:36 AM

Karen W. (106) 		ASDtags_Present4U_happybirthday.jpg
I hope your birthday is all you hope for and more!
Dec 20, 2009 1:56 AM

Daria W. (202) 		Photobucket

Enjoy your day, Craig!
  (((hugs)))
Dec 18, 2009 4:39 PM

Alice D. (1415)
Have a Wonderful Birthday Craig !

Dec 14, 2009 8:44 PM

Alice D. (1415)
Santa says I should thank you for the star....so....Thank you for the star ! : )
Dec 14, 2009 2:49 PM

Alice D. (1415)

or, Cre

Dec 14, 2009 2:13 PM

Chetna P. (288) 		December 21st ~ Dearest Craig

HappyBirthday.jpg picture by chetna_p
Dec 13, 2009 10:31 PM

Johan M. (110) 		CommentYou.com is your One Stop Shop
Hi Craig! Thank you for adding me! Have a great day!
Dec 4, 2009 3:55 PM

Mehr I. (680) 		ballet costume and wingsMay all your days fill with happiness, peace and love.

Mehr
Dec 1, 2009 6:19 PM

Mehr I. (680)

Elven fairy on a white rose, Elven on rose
wish you wonderful rosy  days with one hundred million miracles  every day


Nov 28, 2009 3:39 PM

Denise M. (99) 		True friends 
Nov 22, 2009 2:37 PM

Denise M. (99) 		Thanksgiving 
Sep 24, 2009 4:07 PM

Talathiel T. (138)
Sep 23, 2009 12:47 AM

Talathiel T. (138)
To you, my friend, on the first day of Autumn~~
warm hugs,
Blair
Sep 23, 2009 12:43 AM

Talathiel T. (138)
To you, my friend, on the first day of Autum~
warm hugs,
Blair
Sep 16, 2009 6:25 PM

Talathiel T. (138) 		Enjoy!

hugs,
Blair
Jul 31, 2009 2:16 PM

Denise M. (99)

Just stopping by your page to wish you a great
weekend and to let you know I was thinking about ya!
Days - Weekend Myspace Comments
Jun 19, 2009 3:31 PM

Denise M. (99) 		Graphics and Layouts at DazzleJunction.com
Jun 12, 2009 9:31 PM

Mehr I. (680) 		The caravan of life shall always pass
Beware that is fresh as sweet young grass
Let’s not worry about what tomorrow will amass
Fill my cup again, this night will pass, alas.
Omar Khayyam
 
Jun 12, 2009 1:13 PM

Danielle S. (393) 		Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Many friendly hugs and greetings , Danielle

Jun 6, 2009 1:18 PM

Denise M. (99)
Profile theme: "Other: YinYang"   |    as your profile theme
Flag as Inappropriate
Copyright © 2009 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved