Sheltering in place is magnifying the importance of screen-free time: During Quarantine, Take Some Time Off Screens
We need to talk about an injustice
In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness…
Listening is difficult
Hearing happens when we’re able to recognize a sound. Listening happens when we put in the effort to understand what it means. It not only requires focus, but it also requires a commitment: Listening is difficult
Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests
The Equal Justice Initiative founder discusses the roots of police violence, how to change the culture of policing, and the frustration and despair behind this week’s protests: Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests
How to Use Anger as a Catalyst for Action
Today’s National Day of Mourning can help us build toward justice for all: How to Use Anger as a Catalyst for Action
Thank You, Scott
A perspective on social media activism. Don’t be a Scott!
Cultivating the Awakening Mind
His Holiness the Dalai Lama leads a ceremony for cultivating the awakening mind broadcast live to a world wide audience from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on June 5, 2020. English begins around 1:00…
Harlem by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
How Racist Are You? Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise
A very ‘eye opening’ (pun intended) exercise…
8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do
How can you help build resilience in your child? Here are 8 things to consider: 8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do
Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It.
Keep this story in mind when talking with stubborn people: “The earliest strong match for the modern saying located by QI appeared in the January 3, 1948 issue of “The Saturday Evening Post” within a profile of Cyrus Stuart Ching who was the head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: A man in the audience began heckling him with a long series of nasty and irrelevant questions. For a while Ching answered patiently. Finally he held up his big paw and waggled it gently. “My friend,” he said, “I’m not going to answer any more of your questions. I hope you won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy and the pig likes it.’”
Source: Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It – Quote Investigator
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”
“The quote “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us” is often mistakenly attributed to Marshall McLuhan. It does NOT appear in “Understanding Media”, as Wilson Miner confidently asserts in the presentation below, indeed it does not appear in any published work by McLuhan at all. The quote was actually written by Father John Culkin, SJ, a Professor of Communication at Fordham University in New York and friend of McLuhan. But though the quote is Culkin’s, I would argue that the idea is McLuhan’s, as it comes up in an article by Culkin about McLuhan: Culkin, J.M. (1967, March 18). A schoolman’s guide to Marshall McLuhan. Saturday Review, pp. 51-53, 71-72. The idea presented in the quote is entirely consistent with McLuhan’s thinking on technology in general.”
Source: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” | McLuhan Galaxy
You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video! 😉
Now more than ever with the advent of new audio and video — like ‘deepfake’ — technologies to ‘stay woke, bitches’…
Tell me I’m a good man
Final scene in which Private Ryan, as an older man, sees the grave of Captain Miller and says to his wife, “Tell me I’m a good man.”
Bright, shiny objects! 
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