I was sitting on a bridge in Amsterdam last Saturday. Food for thought: I engaged in conversation with two young beautiful women, (one from New York, the other from Chicago) who had come to study conflict resolution at The Hague. Food for thought.

A fellow by the name of Peter Beeks interrupted our conversation to ask the question: "Why is it that things have to get really tragic before there is any attention paid to problems. Food for thought. I answered: It is the thinking in the human minds that is the problem. The issues you are bringing forth are the results of that thinking. Food for thought.

Peter Beeks is the Project Leader "Projektleider Rafelrandwandelingen" for the Homeless in Amsterdam. He expressed concern over the growing number of youth that are homeless. We agreed to work together on the IPC 2000 project that will raise $ 100 billion dollars for the Children of the World. Food for thought.

So what is food for thought? Is it the package that was sent to me yesterday by June Auton of the Human Values Foundation? This package contains a manual for Schools in the Education in Human Values and consists of lesson plans in Truth, Love, Peace, Right Action and Non-Violence. The package cost L35 just for mailing costs or you might compute this to be Can$83.38 at the current exchange rate. That is not including the cost of the books, production, duplication, and the miriad of other costs that go into the creation of educational materials. What about the time spent making the decision to send this to me. Food for thought?

Should I forward this to Mr Snobelen? The last time I sent him a document on human values, it was a one pager that I wanted to put into the hands of every student in the province. I spent hundreds of hours dealing with his idiotic educational bureaucracy - to no avail. The bureaucrats even wanted to rewrite a document that had already been endorsed by well over 100 religions. Food for thought?

Should we implement Human Values Education? Food for thought.

Consider the following. Educators have agreed that we must educate the whole being. That includes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of the human. Are we getting the message? Food for thought. How do we learn? Food for thought. Does the media educate us? Food for thought. Do we know the right foods to put into our bodies? Food for thought. Is our legal system teaching human values? Food for thought. Is our political system teaching human values. Food for thought. Do our institutions teach us Human values? Food for thought.

Is it not true that we learn from our experience? Food for thought.

Is there something new under the sun? Food for thought.

Each of us can create a vision of how we would like our world to be: Our Preferred World View. The actual shape of this vision will depend on where we are on the planet and our past experiences, but there will be some common core values. This vision is likely to be a healthy, sustainable, infused with ecological integrity, and growing. Our World Citizenship Challenge is intended to facilitate the creation of this Preferred World View in order that we may move towards it: with out a vision we will continue to be lost in the wilderness.

Food for thought.

Why is the budget for UNICEF $1 billion dollars and

1) the profit one bank in Canada I s over $1 Billion doallars? Food for thought.
2) the tobacco companies have enough money to pay $368 billion in penalties?
3) there is a person with over $10 billion dollars in his/ her bank.