A thanksgiving mindful of ALL children
Below you will find a remarkable Thanksgiving prayer-poem by child advocate Marian Wright Edelman. In its vision and compassion it reminds me of …
January opportunity #2: The Future is Calling Us to Greatness
Without even realizing it, I’ve become part of an online conference made up of amazing interviews with amazing people, put together by …
A remarkable 11 year old’s vow of silence
An 11 year old indigenous environmental activist has taken a vow of silence until world leaders finally act to effectively deal with …
Enhancing the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis?
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is reaching another volcanic peak. Perhaps the biggest tragedy is the painfully familiar sense that …
Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism
Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope …
Our responses to existential threats
I explore here the diversity of responses – my own and others’ – to existential threats like extreme climate change … and …
Bitterness dances with Hope
I like this article by Rebecca Solnit (who’s writing I’m coming to love more and more) not because it comes from “the left” but because it calls for sanity and decency. It acknowledges the overriding fact that our quasi-democratic system is itself…
Hopeful trends to build on in 2012
As the new year – the oddly fabled year of 2012 – is upon us, all sorts of people are making predictions, making wishes, making commitments (as well as making money, making trouble, making plans…). I like the approach of Sarah van Gelder, editor…
Exploring full-spectrum social betterment and a remarkable being
All around us we see many approaches to social change and transformation, including political advocacy – letter, phone and petition campaigns, demonstrations, political art and music, etc.; spiritual practices like meditation and prayer; charity a…
#Occupy – a dance of inspiration and strategy
Here are some more good articles and websites about the Occupy Together movement, the global extension of Occupy Wall Street. In this posting there are a number of pieces about strategy and tactics – appeals to and descriptions of nonviolence (inc…