I talked to a 6-year old girl after watching TV. She said, “TV sucks my brains out.”
I talked to parents who grew up in the country and small towns. They told me:
1) They’d identified core values they received through their country and small town childhoods.
2)They committed to transferring those values
3) They’d updated these values to the current context and time.
Raising this generation to have a solid foundation is worthwhile work, indeed.
Today, August 16th marks the 5th anniversary of my sister’s death in a nasty car accident. In many countries…includking Ghana and Tibet, it’s common to mark and honor the anniversaries of deaths. not that these are needed to keep memories alive. And not that they need to be solemn or sad times. My sister’s grave…
Sunday noon the Rigpa retreat at Squaw Creek ended with fireworks inside us and snow outside the windows. As we left Squaw Valley it felt as if we were driving in a convoy…mostly towards route 80 West…destination Sacramento. That was to be my route back to Lake County. It promised to be a rather a…
All week I’ve been thinking about and talking about Bill Moyers Journal March 28, 2008 look at “an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s.” There is a transcript and podcast and background material here you’ll want to…
Photo by Eden Maxwell, from the Tibetan Museum on Staten Island His Holiness the Dalai Lama is joined at this event by four distinguished panelists. In addition to the interaction of the panelists, you’ll see short videos on the panelists’ work. Here’s the link for April 11, 2008 session (9-11 PST) at University of Washington,…
Tinka Friend, a Unitarian Universalist in Southern California and editor of the newsletter “Serenity” writes us this note from her part of the world. –JGR _________________ Now that all the wildfires surrounding us have died down and we can breathe again… I just finished the November and December issues of “Serenity.” I already had half…
The Wall Street Journal online also quoted Diane Thompson Regulators Scrutinized In Mortgage Meltdown By Greg Ip and Damiam Paletta ….”It is extremely rare, for individual matters, to get relief from either the state or the federal regulators,” says Diane Thompson, her attorney. A Wachovia spokeswoman declined to comment on the settlement but noted the…