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The email was innocent enough. Sent by a well-meaning and always interesting friend, I opened it. Here is part of his text to me . . .
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I decided I want to be more social, make more friends and be less ego-centric. I notice that I don't feel good when if I
My father, an old fashion country doctor, used to make house calls to farms near our town. On days when we kids were not in school, we were allowed to accompany him. Farms are terrific places for youngsters to wear off excess energy. So, we would run and play in the fields, peer at animals in the barn, scramble up haystacks, climb fences, and swim in the creeks. We city kids rode cows and rubbed horses
I have recently written on my personal blog about North America’s consumer societies, and my wish, instead of being a consumer, to be consumed. Consumed with fire, passion, and energy to do what I came to Earth to do.
Tony Kaye, creator of a documentary about both sides of the issue of abortion called Into the Fire, is quoted in the newest edition of Utne Reader. Read more...
International Women
How old do you have to be to have grown up with the internet, cell phones, text-messaging, social community sites, collaborative sites (wikis), and interactive games? As more and more of you, who have been so reared, enter the work world, the harder and harder it will be for organizations to attempt to manage you by command and control methods. That lesson came clear to the USA Army, according to Steven Mains and Laura W. Geller in their article "Freeing Ideas from Their Silos," in strategy&business' current on-line magazine (http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00062) Read more...
Every year, thousands of children arrive to California. These students along with first and second-generation American students look for educational spaces willing to embrace their cultural diversity. Inner-city schools respond to these needs in three different ways. The majority of schools promote a pure assimilation/acculturation to the mainstream culture. Occasionally, the schools
Even though Ode
When I first read these words, the word love replaced peace. A love which overshadows. How big would that love have to be? I tried to imagine that big a love emanating from me. It would have to cover George W. Bush, Darfur, fundamentalists and extremists of all kinds, AIDS, politicos of all stripes, liars, murderers, drug dealers, all the things I have, upon occasion, judged as “wrong.” Who am I to know what’s right and what’s wrong for every individual on earth? What I know is that my personal ability to love sometimes has judgment attached to it.
Then I had an idea: what if there were a peace which overshadows? A peace SO BIG—like the arms of a toddler swearing how much she loves her mama and papa—that it would cover all those judgments and that puny personal love. This same piece is characterized in Christian Scripture as “the peace that passes all understanding.” Read more...
