I wrote on this site most recently about bullying against LGBT children. I expressed my fear of having a child bullied or be a bully. All of the things I thought, deep in my heart, that I had taught my children — empathy, understanding, acceptance — were erased by my son writing one little word on the internet.
Share Your Stuff
From socks to cars to skills, how sharing and swapping gives you more.
Get Free From Wall Street: An Interview With David Korten
David Korten’s 1995 bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, was a key document in building the anti-globalization movement. In the aftermath of the 2008 economic meltdown, he wrote Agenda for a New Economy, a critique of the overwhelming influence of Wall Street on economic policy, which has resulted in a political system that serves, not the many, but the very wealthy few. Now, Korten is back with a strategy for taking back our political and economic systems and using them to create localized, community-controlled economies that foster the things we really need.
At Last, a Human Right to Water
Today is Blog Action Day! Bloggers around the globe are posting about the same issue on the same day with the goal of “sparking a global discussion and driving collective action.” This year’s topic is water, and the following article published on in July in Yes Magazine! is so important it needs to be read and read again, and again.
Tarmac Meditations #29: Emotional Brambles
“When things have changed sometimes all a guy can do is wait for the sunrise and set out to start all over again,” writes Michael Lebowitz in the newest installment of Tarmac Meditations.
Three Quarters
When we look at homeless people, do we see problems or people? Susie Ivory reflects on how one young man’s humble need brought her new compassion.
Driving the Streets of San Miguel
Lorne Daniel travelled to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico seeking a sabbatical that included respite from his citizens’ group on the effects of automobiles on our cities. But what he found in Mexico were cars — and plenty think about when it comes to how cars impact society … and society impacts cars.
The Other Side of Me: The Damndest Things
Have you even noticed how the damndest things happen — events occur that are in total sync with your life and yet so out-of-the-blue unexpected that it must be destiny? I’ve been having a lot of those experiences lately. Former boyfriends (yep, the hurtful dudes) suddenly appearing in my life after decades without a word, notes from my father falling from a book I hadn’t picked up in forever…
Tarmac Meditations # 28: It’s Not Personal, or Is It?
When Tony Soprano says it’s not personal it is likely true…mostly on account of the flotilla of personal disconnects in the man’s (character’s) emotional structure. When a friend says it’s not personal, it is important to note that one’s anger and all the rest is verifiable, distressing and is, well, personal.
I Hate Handstands
“Yoga uncovers hidden parts of yourself, then shifts your life,” writes guest author Marylee Graffeo Fairbanks. “It summons the lessons needed lessons for transformation. We can resist, but the longer we take to see the harder the lessons get.
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