Is being an upstander the ultimate connection?  The only thing that leads us there is observation, something we are doing less of as a species today...  Episode 9 brings you to think deep like this- it is not an easy listen, but one we all need-- but like we need to face the HARD  of the state of the world around us- let's do it with ease, care, and appreciating that every bit matters. 

“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”

― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

There is no motivation for this action. It seems like this story is missing a part because people just aren’t this nonsensically cruel. But where you see no motivation, you understand racism a little more. It’s this weird, unprovoked lashing-out, and it never makes any sense. It’s why it’s so easy for people to believe the police when they beat someone up--because no one would be that cruel just because the person was Black. But they are!”

― Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

Holocaust and Human Right Center

Population of Hungary

LEGAL RULES ON THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS IN HUNGARY

IUCN

WWF Hungary

Sustainable Hunting Hungary

Call to action: Owls

Correction to episode
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'First they Came For...' Poem

Visiting Israel Article

The Great Escape by Kati Marton

Who is Marcel Marceau?

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