A video on using a risk assessment model to inform our action (or lack of action) regarding global warming. The issue of global warming has become one of the success stories, of late, where political and religious factions have found common ground.

A white paper from The Third Way about the importance and the real possibility of finding shared ( Read more... )

 I'm reading this fascinating -- really fascinating -- article about how and why people interact and its relationship to the burgeoning use of social networking sites.  It's not a fast read, but it does prompt (oh, OK, I admit that for me most things prompt) some self-examination.

Here are a few things that stick out in my mind:

"But we are only ( Read more... )

Paper Cranes:  The Hibakusha* come to Gethsemani
(*Hibakusha are survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima)

"How can we tell a paper bird
Is stronger than a hawk
When it has no metal for talons?

"How can we tell a paper bird
Is stronger than a hawk
When it has no metal for talons?
It needs no power to kill
Because it is not hungry.

Wilder and wiser than eagles
It ( Read more... )

Where The Soul Is
Finding The Place You Belong

There will likely be times in your life when your soul evolves more quickly than your circumstances. Your subconscious mind may be ready to move forward long before you recognize that you are destined to embrace a new way of life. Your soul intuitively understands that changing habitats can be a vital ( Read more... )

D said:  "So just to stir the pot what is the limit on free speech to you? None is an answer. Is there irresponsible free speech ( Read more... )

"As a culture we are formed to be on the lookout for the spectacular and for the famous. And so we can miss what really matters. We can get caught up in spiritual heroics, all the while failing to tend the fabric of our daily human relationships."     --Mary C. Earle

I'm thinking about "daily human relationships" and how they really matter; and, of ( Read more... )

"A LOADED GUN

Imus and I were close at one time -- I used to talk to him on the phone. In those days, you could call him up and ask him to nuke someone, and then he would play the sound of an explosion. I used to ask him to nuke my rector, and he would make me tell him why and I would make up something ridiculous. Walt needed to be nuked because he ( Read more... )

Did more reading on the concept of self this weekend ( Read more... )

Holy moly, and pass the guacamole!  Now THAT was a weekend, and I have only just recovered.

Friday:  
     Met 
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What is it about the middle of the night

that sees us at our weakest?  at our most child-like?  our most introspective?  3 am sees the deepest worries come to the surface, the nightmares bubble up, the panic attacks wrap themselves around our ankles and chests and pull us down.

It's when my mom pulls out the paper and pencil and writes to me:  "I' ( Read more... )