As the great James Baldwin once said, "Nothing can be changed until it is faced." When is our community going to stop hiding history from our children? York leaders unfortunately have a long record of attempting to avoid honest discussion of the issue of race and discrimination and we see where that has gotten us. …
"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. . . Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." - Steve Jobs
A friend of mine just reminded me of a wise shift of perspective that is pretty helpful when dealing with politics, work and many other challenging arenas. Each of us encounters much adversity each week. We see those challenges as an annoyance, but the truth is they may be just what we need. As the …
Continue reading Who is the teacher? And who is the student?
We need James Baldwin right about now to sort all this out. (Baldwin is in the center in photo above). If you haven't read "The Fire Next Time", "Another Country" & his book of essays "The Price of the Ticket", you're missing out on the powerful wisdom of one of America's greatest writers of all …
The forces and systems of repression are very organized. We must peacefully organize too (even more than we already are). There are 198 peaceful ways to beat what we are facing and turn this world around. Here they are: https://clearblueskyoutwest.com/2017/08/17/198-methods-of-nonviolent-resistance-marching-is-only-one-of-them/ We can't afford to wait for others to change their mind. A wise man once …
A friend of mine just reminded me of a wise shift of perspective that is pretty helpful. Each of us encounters much adversity each week. We see those challenges as an annoyance, but the truth is they may be just what we need. As the zen masters would say, if befuddling teachers didn't exist, we'd …
Continue reading WHO IS THE TEACHER? AND WHO IS THE STUDENT?
Thanks to whoever posted this: "It is just like when the tobacco lobby owned Congress, smokers' rights beat everybody else's rights. Restaurants, planes, elevators, hospitals. . . It was a smoker's right to smoke anywhere and a non smoker's obligation to deal with it. That dysfunctional situation took decades to go away. We …
NO GUN In the spring of 1993, I had the good fortune to be a member of a crew building log cabins in the middle of the Tobacco Root Mountains in Montana. It was my job to hand strip the logs with a draw knife. I had some serious callouses and worked some long …
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