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“All activities should be done with one intention. That intention is to realize our connection with all beings.”

-Pema Chodrom

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“Discipline is remembering what you want.”
      -David Campbell

h/t to K-Co

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My Congress,

I am inspired, my Congress, and let me tell you why.

Because for the first time in my life, I am seeing people come together to action.  Larger numbers of voters are mobilized than ever before.  People are speaking the same voice, are giving of themselves, are motivated ( Read more... )

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For this poster that you boldly had up in your classroom, with no explanation, nothing but fodder for some girls’ minds if they were not paying attention in class.  Now I remember it poignantly, and have gone seeking the internet to share it with others.

Perhaps someday, some girl ( Read more... )

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Gloria Steinem has some thoughts on this whole Palin thing: It’s not about a piece of the pie.  It’s about a whole new PIE.

Please, understand that I’m a neo-feminist (as I was termed today.)  I don’t believe that women have the right to be anything a man is.  I believe that women ( Read more... )

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We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

- Sandra Day O’Connor

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the ( Read more... )

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From this speech he gave in Madison on July 19th.

“First of all, we must be clear about what we mean by compassion. Many forms of compassionate feeling are mixed with desire and attachment. For instance, the love parents feel of their child is often strongly associated with their ( Read more... )

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This may seem to conflict with one of my previous posts.  I hope I can disabuse you of that belief quickly.

A comment to my divorce post really struck home with me.  I’ll repeat the specific line here:

“In our culture, we have learned to be insensitive to anything but the mask of ( Read more... )

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This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

There was a bit on This American Life about this poem, and how many offshoots it has inspired.  There ( Read more... )