Praise for Bruce's editorials and essays

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An extraordinary addition to the ongoing dialogue about the state of our nation and world, and what can be done about it.

--Thom Hartmann, best-selling author and host of nationally syndicated progressive daily radio talk show

--Jim Hightower, radio commentator and author of Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush

We should be grateful to Bruce Mulkey for speaking out on behalf of peace, the public interest, and democratic participation.  And I'm grateful for his words about the mainstream media's political coverage and responsibility.  Print these columns out and knock on your neighbors' doors.  We'll be the better for it.

--Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

In my travels all over America, I am finding more and more little islands of love and sanity where people are taking it upon themselves to fashion human-scaled communities guided by their highest values: brotherhood, environmental sustainability, fairness, friendship, and love. Sometimes it is an old house shared by six or seven people with ordinary jobs but extraordinary souls. Sometimes it is a piece of land with beautiful gardens and happy people living there--not divorced from the rest of the world in some cult, but participating and making a contribution to the world from their strong and happy home base. Sometimes it is family. They share in common a disdain for mainstream television and consumer overconsumption. They have their eyes open politically. They know that the future is important, but they do not neglect the beauty and feast of the present moment.

Bruce Mulkey's book is an important anthem for and guidebook to that better way of living. We must convey the images and feelings of this better world--this living democracy and this natural economy--and we must do so in competition with the superficial and oppressive world marketed by the toxic phalanx of corporations who so dominate so many sleeping lives around us. If we do not pull away to this better world, we cannot long survive as a people or a planet.

--Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Nonagenarian who walked across the nation at the age of 89 in support of campaign finance reform. Now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in NH

--John Huie, Director, Environmental Leadership Center, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina

--Jim Nave, poet, performer & founder of Taos Creativity Retreats

--Ken Sehested, co-pastor, Circle of Mercy Congregation and program associate, Institute for Servant Leadership, Asheville, North Carolina

--Leigh Wilkerson, poet, writer, forest advocate and registered nurse

I just read your latest editorial about going back to simpler living and was moved by your words and actions. Thanks for writing about the human overconsumption of limited resources on this planet. I have friends who've traded a beautiful black Volvo for two scooters. Others, at the paper, ride bikes to work. You've inspired me to be less of an Earth Gobbler.

Thanks. Again, I enjoy your work.

--Susan Reinhardt, Asheville Citizen-Times columnist

Dear Bruce Mulkey, that was a really powerful column today, and thanks for getting the message out there in your own particular way! I also appreciated your comments on being a 'recovered liar' ... aren't we all? That is part of the 'charm' of your writing, Bruce. When you are really speaking from your insides, there's no question in this reader's mind that you are saying what you truly feel. And you don't say it like a preacher ... you don't exhort us to feel your same passion. But you do convince us that your passion is honest. Not springing from some hidden agenda. Gut-inspired.

You also do well in the simply chatty or informative essays, for the same reason. I think we, your readers, 'hear' your real voice saying the words. You manage to personalize it in some way that makes us feel familiar to you. Or you to us. We can identify, even when we don't agree. . . .

Thanks for keeping the right messages out there in the world!

--Mary Phillips, American citizen living in France

--Phil Milgrom, public speaker, stress management consultant, writer

Your wisdom and insight touches the part of me that cares so much about the world we live in and frequently experiences despair.

--Janet Orion, DC

Thanks again for your keen insights and continued enlightening of the American people. We certainly need more of your caliber and integrity! You continue in my thoughts and prayers!

--Jim Matthews

I appreciated the column you sent a couple of weeks ago. These are messages we need to be hearing. Thanks for sharing it and blessings on all that you are about.

--Sister Donna Marie Vaillancourt

--Don Leighton-Burwell, architect, Austin, TX

YOU, my dear, are such a valuable resource! I love you and am in gratitude for your stand in thisworld.

--Jenny Meadows, editor, Austin, TX

Bruce Mulkey surfs on the leading edge of humanity's wisdom. He is a member of that narrow segment of the population who not only takes strong, principled, public stands on the issues of the day, but also balances analysis and advocacy through ongoing personal development. I have known Bruce for many years, and I know him to be a man who follows his own advice for conscious living in integrity with himself and others. Bruce's writing speaks from a place deep within his heart -- a place we all share. I am reliably refreshed and challenged by his columns. Those who dare to let themselves be touched by his work will see themselves and their world more clearly. The world is richer for his presence.

--Gregg Roberts, fellow writer & visionary, Austin, TX