I most enjoy play-with-reality ideas: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin,"Hammers", a play by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, and Knowing and the Known by John Dewey and Arthur Bentley (obscure and hard to read personal correspondence in which they invent their own vocabulary),The Order of Things by Michel Foucault, and now The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore.
Music
Chicchi, Surf and Turf band
Movies
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Television
Torchwood, Dr. Who, Stargate, The Closer, CSI
Books
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf, The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore;The Selfish Gene:30th Anniv. Ed by Richard Dawkins;Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie;The Assault on Reason by Al Gore;Feeling and Thinking by Joseph P. Forgas
Heroes
Gretchen Morgenson,of the New York Times, who grasped the big picture, that the financial sector had gone rogue, long before the business press.
Jane D'Arista, economist and retired professor who knows how the Federal Reserve needs to be fixed.
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that my new EP, "Something Worth Keeping", is now available on iTunes. "Only a Song" features special guest Jim James from My Morning Jacket. Follow the link below to check out my two new songs!
Celebrate Bisexuality Day also called Bisexual Pride Day is held annually on September 23[& traditionally celebrated with events through-out that week and week-end] and puts the Bisexual/Pansexual Community on the map with its call to Promote Visibility and Celebrate the Wonderful Diversity of ALL our Communities, Friends, Families, Allies and Lives with various sorts of GREAT EVENTS from Evening Potlucks, to Afternoon Picnics, from Panel Discussions to Dinner Dances and so much more.
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Picking the photo for my blog is always fun for me. I like to pick things that have an impact on me and hopefully they help illustrate my point.
So for my end of year blog, and start of a new year, why this one above?
It’s called perspective.
A friend has been writing to me about her deep sadness in seeing the competition among some peace activists for control of the movement. On the national level some of the people/groups don’t work so well with each other. She tried to get in the middle of it and came away frustrated. My response was: Some progressive movement activists have adopted the business model. Competition with each other instead of cooperation - competition for money, for media, for a sense of personal and political power – access to the politicians and thus some perceived influence. Some folks spout the good rhetoric but then try to control things. We won’t ever get anywhere as long as we internalize the ideology of domination.
Our tiny Mother Earth is a spinning orb racing through space surrounded by much greater stars and planets. We are just a tiny dot in the sky. Each of us down here on tierra firma is nothing but a speck of sand at the bottom of the ocean. We are a part of nature, a part of the Earth, and a part of the universe. We take ourselves much to seriously at times.
Not to say we don’t have major issues here on the Mothership. We do - endless war, mindless hate, growing poverty, climate change and more. But the way out of this madness is not working one against the other. Our only hope is to follow the ways of nature.
In the natural world each living system – water, air, sky, land, plants, animals, humans – is linked to one another. We are part of an interconnectin
