Don't forget who we were before the garish gold plated loudmouth entered the room. When HE's here — all ham handed — we’re sure to get ornery on fear and see the sacred web strained. But we know the way back. Remember feeling the warm embrace of your first love. That flower bloomed years before …
"For power truly to feel itself menaced, it must somehow sense itself in the presence of another power - or, more accurately, an energy - which it has not known how to define and therefore does not really know how to control. . . When power translates itself into tyranny, it means that the principles …
Continue reading Forging a new morality & creating the principles on which a new world will be built
(Forwarded to me by a friend). “Cousin - I think you know I love this country. I grew up same as you did. I've got K.T. Oslin and old Hank in my phone. I love warm raspberries plucked right off the bush in the sun and fields of corn and hayrides and sunsets in the …
Continue reading A MESSAGE TO PEOPLE WHO STILL SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP
Here’s a CLEAR PLAN TO SAVE AMERICA, a compelling view of where we are, how we got here & what we need to do now at this crucial moment in history. https://www.c-span.org/video/?461581-1/senator-bernie-sanders-delivers-remarks-democratic-socialism
THIS APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALL BE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO: (1st of 3) Dire warning of where this country is heading. NYTimes Op Ed VIDEO CLIP: "I want you to be scared, because if you’re not worried about encroaching fascism in America, before long, it will start to feel normal & when …
Continue reading NEW YORK TIMES: If You’re Not Afraid of Fascism, You Should Be
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that nonviolence is the most powerful weapon on earth. Gene Sharp agrees. Sharp (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) developed a list of 198 Methods of non-violent resistance and wrote books describing how to deploy them successfully. As you’ll see in the video below, Sharp’s proven …
Continue reading 198 Effective Methods of Non-Violent Resistance (Marching is only one of them)
John O’Donohoe wrote the following in an essay called “Blessing Our World Now” “Sometimes when we look out, the world seems so dark. War, violence, hunger and misery seem to abound. This makes us anxious and helpless. What can I do in my private little corner of life that could have any effect on the …
“Of course you can fix the fragment of a piece. But then it will deteriorate because what it is connected to has been ignored.” (From the film Mindwalk). We can no longer afford to look at the world in terms of isolated pieces. That is a deluded view of reality. Because the truth is that …
Continue reading A WHOLE NEW VIEW: How to Keep the Great Idea Alive
Our nation has reached a point where our political, economic, social and environmental challenges seem overwhelming. Here are just a few examples: 50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line. (Columbia University School of Public Health study here ) 20 individuals now have as much wealth as the poorest 150 million Americans –half …
“My life has been a path at the edge of uncertainty. Today I think we educate kids to be settled in a comfortable chair. You have your job. You have your little car. You have a place to sleep. And the dreams are dead. You don’t roll on a secure path. All of us should …
