The Jan.-Feb. Peaceable Table is now online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

Dear Animal Kin,                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                 
In this issue:                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                 

• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom shows two infants who became best friends, a wombat and a kangaroo.
• The Editor's Corner Guest Essay deals with finding meaning, and thus hope, in situations of unavoidable suffering, with reference to Logotherapy created by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl.  This can have implications for our distress over animal suffering.                                                                          
• One of the NewsNotes reports that Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff urge generous people not to support groups like Heifer International who give animals to needy families, a setup that is not sustainable, and can traumatize children when the animal is eventually killed and eaten.  They urge support for sustainable charities instead.
• The Pioneer featured in this issue is Peace Pilgrim (Mildred Lisette Norman, 1908 - 1981), who became a kind of nun-errant, crossing the US multiple times on foot, urging all she met to seek peace.  She became a compassionate vegan during her period of preparation, in the 1950s.                                                                                     
  
• The "Did You MIss This One?" Book Review deals with Proteinaholic:  How Our Obsession With Meat is Killing Us, and What We Can Do About It, by physician Garth Davis.
• The Poetry selection in this issue is Emily Dickinson's well-known "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," which we have quoted, in part, before.                                                                                                                                                                             

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Gracia Fay Ellwood,

Editor