Perhaps the most heartening victory of the fiercely contested national election is the record-breaking turnout of voters braving long waits and the coronavirus to exercise their VOICE. We can think of no better celebration than the anthem Patti Smith wrote in 1988…
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Greta Thunberg’s Fierce Clarity Gives Us Hope
In the face of seemingly unsolvable problems of our world, we’ve been heartened by the fierce activism, voice and presence of young adults, like sixteen year old climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Martin Luther King Jr via Sharase DeBouse and John Lewis
Martin Luther King Jr’s words spoken decades ago resonant more strongly today than ever.
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A Time-Limited Mind Sharpening Practice
After our friend Tim Chegwidden suffered a stroke years ago at age 54, he had to painstakingly learn how to speak again. He immediately started figuring out systems to do the thing he loved most: express the complexities of what he read or saw. Not satisfied with the level of nuance of the words he used, he developed a powerful practice to deepen them.
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Robin Williams Helps Carole Burnett Express Herself
(Video link HERE.) After a reader mentioned an episode of the Carole Burnett show riffing on The Princess and the Pea (a reference to our inability to sleep no matter what fix we do to the myseriously vibrating bed) we went hunting for it. We never found it* but stumbled on this extraordinary bit from…
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