Kate Orland Bere celebrates and chronicles a natural world fast disappearing.
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A twelve-story fiction collection, Freight focuses on the phenomenon of trauma. Whether gothic, whimsical, surreal, or satiric, Freight’s stories explore the complexity of human ethical and sometimes political dilemmas – investigating the effects of traumatic, troubling events from disparate, often disturbing, perspectives.
The force of the imagination reveals pathways for inventing a personal future where joy and passion are possible.
What can we choose to do in our lives to build a life of contribution, of intellectual growth, of growth in integrity?
POET/Writer/Speaker Kate Orland Bere is offering keynote speeches of 20 minutes to 45 minutes focused on the following topics:
Swallowed Whole
the fastest way, he says
is through the front door
through the front door I went and
it ate me engulfed me tore out my entrails
spat me on the wall with the horses
1] https://moralfibres.co.uk/inspiring-climate-change-speeches/
2] https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/causes-climate-change
3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4AJfbkgJc
4] https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
5] https://climateactionnetwork.ca/get-involved/work-with-us/
6] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/ipcc-report-we-must-stop-burning-fossil-fuels
7] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/edu-wind-turbines/
8] Beginning with these films, learn more about climate crisis and pathways forward: I am Greta; The Need to Grow; and those found on this list: https://earth.org/climate-change-movies/
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The Age of Bewilderment: Yuval Noah Harari & 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By Kate Orland Bere – Copyright November, 2020
A detailed summary essay & critique based on Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century [Published in 2018 by Signal, an imprint of Mclelland & Stewart Ltd, Canada.]