I have removed the bullet points from each of the ten 'to-do's' on this list so you'll go to Dave Pollard's site How to Save the World and read it all--every bit of it.  So there.  And then, either on Dave's site, or here, or both, write which are the ones you think are most important.  My picks are # 7 and  # ...

An Open Letter to Barack Obama By Alice Walker | Commentary from The Root Alice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear. Nov. 5, 2008 Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United ...

This is this week's submission for One Single Impression (prompt # 31): Fleeting One Single Impression is a community of poets writing and sharing haiku and other poetic forms. Each week a new prompt is offered for inspiration. So much of the poetry on One Single Impression is beautiful and/or elegant.  This submission is not that or ...

GOODBYE CEREMONY   Your husband, your son and your daughter have left. Their disconnected legs are mechanical vehicles carrying sagging shoulders and slapped faces away to restless beds. Out the window, there is no thunder, no raven, no song. There is only the noise of this room, the lights buzzing and faucet dripping. I say, ...

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. --- attributed to either Al Rogers or Eric Hoffer [quoted from How to Save the World] This post is a SynchroBlog on The Politics of God hosted through the site Square No More.  See ...

I just got back from a conference in New Orleans, a city I have never before visited.  It took me more than just a moment to sort out my feelings and impressions, but, O so tentatively I have settled on a few bits and pieces.   New Orleans is not one place any more; it is two.  First it is a city of intense and ...

http://www.med.wisc.edu/news/item.php?id=2756 I have a quote on my wall above my computer at home that says ''Life is a delicate balance between letting things happen and making things happen.'' Working in child abuse prevention, I am constantly walking this line, between motivating people and rushing them. People's hearts and minds can move ...

  We had a lively and wonderful gathering for the March Central Oregon Fire Circle last night, March 21st. Great fire with the full moon rising over the back fence. Several new people, as well as regulars and us old-timers came out for the celebration of  the coming of the light or spring AND at the same time the holy darkness ...

When a stranger appears at your door,feed him for three daysbefore asking who he is,where he’s come from,where he’s headed.That way, he’ll have strengthenough to answer.Or, by then you’ll besuch good friendsyou don’t care.   These words by Rumi-esque Arab-American poet Naomi Shihib Nye have echoed in my heart since I read them on Spiritual ...

  A new member of our community, Roxanne, has just posted a story of grave hope and redemption. Thoughts on Acceptance and Change.  It's a hard one to read...but Roxanne is amazing in her lack of self-pity or recrimination. What may be even more powerful is her understanding of what forgiveness means--it's not a simple ...

From the second post in this series, about why-ever in the world I could be so afraid of silence is the quote I'm living with: ''I abandon all that I think I am, all that I hope to be, all that I believe I possess. I let go of the past, withdraw my grasping hand from the future, and in the great silence of this moment, alertly rest ...