Wearing the editor's hat this month, Benjamin Urrutia writes about a
professional animal-rescuer in "Avi Kuzi:  Compassion in Action."
Most of Avi's adventures to free trapped animals would be applauded by
all, but how about his underwater dives to slash fishing-nets?

One of the Unset Gems gives us a word from transcendentalist Ralph
Waldo Emerson showing the complicity of the flesh-eating diner in the
distant slaughterhell.

Aesop's fable about a crow dropping pebbles into a pitcher to raise
the water level inspired a scientific study with a rook, recounted in
a NewsNote.  The fable-writer may really have been referring to
humans, but today's black-feathered bird shows himself no less astute
than his ancient cousin.

One of the Letters is from Neville Fowler, the Pioneer in a past issue
of PT, and founder of Help International Plant Protein Organization
(HIPPO) which educates and empowers people in developing countries to
adopt or work toward a plant-based diet.

We get a glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom in two video clips of a
parrot affectionately caring for a kitten.

Not everyone knows that the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln (who
shares his first name with Avi Kuzi) loved animals.  See the Review of
this children's book.

Since our Recipe editor Angela Suarez is particularly busy this month,
your humble editor offers two recipes modified from other sources.
The "Happier Black Bean Soup" started out in Joy of Cooking, but this
new version is bound to make for healthier humans as well as happier
pigs.

Our October Pioneers, Robert and Sherry Madrone, caught a vision of
harmony among human beings, animals, and the earth in their days in
the late  1960s counterculture.  But unlike many who abandoned it for
conventional life (and diet), the Madrones have continued to "follow
the Gleam," realizing the vision more and more deeply in their daily
life.

One of the Poetry selections, "Thanks Be to God," celebrates the
blessings of domestic life, the freshness of nature, our work for
justice and compassion, and the ultimate divine Gift.

To see this issue, go to http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue58.html

We are always looking for new material, particularly Pilgrimage and
Pioneer narratives.  Don't be bashful--we would welcome your story.

Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,

Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor

"Let us take the adventure that is sent us."  -Thomas Malory