WHAT if you knew you could heal the world by throwing your food away — in the right place?

It’s now possible for faith-based communities in about 30 of America’s larger urban areas to recycle and compost most or all of the food and packaging materials they generate, and create no-waste celebrations — which satisfies those key Biblical environmental principles, “don’t waste” (Leviticus) and steward the earth (Genesis).

For most of human history, we have been grinding up the earth’s resources and throwing them into garbage dumps. It’s all simply explained in Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff.

WHICH punctuation mark personality are you? Weird question, I know. But I have been noticing these punctuation marks more and more lately. They really are what animate the written word. Without them, words and writing would not be half as expressive. The words wouldn’t quite communicate their meaning fully. Punctuation has significance beyond the basic rules of grammar. It is what gives the writing a voice and an inflection. A distinguishable shape, tone and nuance. In short, punctuation makes the words talk.

Let's see who we have here in the punctuation family.

. There is the period. Officially, it marks a declarative sentence. But also, the period, more than any other punctuation mark, says certainty and finality. It clearly shows us where things stop. The End. Nope, I am no period girl.