NARAL’s Day of Prevention
I am not the closest follower of choice politics, but this is a newer approach. Prevention-focused, we all band together to stop abortions.
Deep Listening, Loving Speech
Repeat every day. Repeat after bad meetings, before filing taxes. Repeat.
Four themes: Mindful. Wondrous. Loving. Voice of the world regarded.
Listen. Hear. Don’t scan.
Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I vow to cultivate loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I vow to learn to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to criticize or condemn things of which I am not sure. I will refrain from uttering words that can cause division or discord, or that can cause the family or the community to break. I will make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.
Breadth of technology
I’m sitting in a room of brilliant technologists. I am overwhelmed and overstimulated at the same time (now, I can go to Sephora or Neiman Marcus, look at 100 lipsticks, and feel pure joy). But the sheer sense of the opportunity that technology delivers is stunning.
A natural healer came to the group to open the session yesterday. She spoke of simplicity and looking into one’s self. I find this harder to do with the sheer volume of information– indeed options– out there. Our eyelids must surely flicker more frequently now.
Women, traditionally, have better visual scanning skills than men. We read traffic signs faster. As an ex-competitive volleyball player, I was amazed to read about the enhanced visual scanning skills of trained volleyball players. Now though, will our order of intellectual regard and acknowledgement be defined by those who can interpret this overwhelming and wooly world? Creative Commons and folksonomy? This surely will create a new digital divide and technology propogates and more and more newness requires constant processing.
Sorting technology requires intensive filtering ability. We now seem to think through memes and maps. How deep do we look now? And how quickly?
Rick Warren takes on Global Warming
I’m not an evangelical (heck, I’m not even Christian) but I really respect Rick Warren. I am slowly reading The Purpose Driven Life.
And today, when I read about the group of evangelical pastors who are storming Washington, DC to attempt to curb global warming, I said a Hallelujah:
“For most of us, until recently this has not been treated as a pressing issue or major priority,” the statement said. “Indeed, many of us have required considerable convincing before becoming persuaded that climate change is a real problem and that it ought to matter to us as Christians. But now we have seen and heard enough.”
The statement calls for federal legislation that would require reductions in carbon dioxide emissions through “cost-effective, market-based mechanisms” — a phrase lifted from a Senate resolution last year and one that could appeal to evangelicals, who tend to be pro-business. The statement, to be announced in Washington, is only the first stage of an “Evangelical Climate Initiative” including television and radio spots in states with influential legislators, informational campaigns in churches, and educational events at Christian colleges.” (From the New York Times.)
Democrats can’t do this. The Sierra Club can’t. Pastors, I bet, can.
It broke
This is a dead longhorn skull, brought to DC from the great wide West.
Not surprisingly, it broke when it hit K St.
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