13th; it’s time to see it

June 5, 2020 0

White Debt

June 3, 2020 0

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?

Source: Harlem by Langston Hughes | Poetry Foundation

June 3, 2020 0

Before you call

June 3, 2020 0

How Racist Are You? Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise

A very ‘eye opening’ (pun intended) exercise…

June 3, 2020 0

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

May 31, 2020 0

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

May 29, 2020 0

“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

May 26, 2020 0

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’…

May 26, 2020 0

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.”

May 25, 2020 0

The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You

May 12, 2020 0

Steely Dan @ Sony Music Center, NYC. Band & Crew Rehearsal

May 12, 2020 0

Beware of Darkness

May 12, 2020 0

Sanity

“Sanity is acting in accord with reality, and reality is what is happening in, with, around, and as you right now. Sanity is living with the present, insanity is living from the past.”

Shapiro, Rabbi Rami. Recovery—The Sacred Art (The Art of Spiritual Living). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.

May 3, 2020 0

The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat

Five tips to harness the benefits of confinement: The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat

May 3, 2020 1

How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship with your Spouse During Coronavirus Lockdown

Good stuff in here: “Since we all are under lockdown, we are spending a lot of time with our spouse. This can be a welcome change for some but for some it can be quite stressful too”: How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship with your Spouse During Coronavirus Lockdown

May 3, 2020 3

Finding Goldilocks: A Solution for Black-and-White Thinking

The sweet spot between opposite extremes is the zone of effective living: Finding Goldilocks: A Solution for Black-and-White Thinking

May 3, 2020 0

Disappointment

Managing disappointment is a key to success in life and love: Disappointment

April 25, 2020 0

Why We Are Busier Than Ever Despite Having Nowhere to Go

Staying at home during quarantine is time consuming. Here is why: Why We Are Busier Than Ever Despite Having Nowhere to Go

April 25, 2020 0

What America needs from its leaders during a crisis

“The professional backgrounds and training of retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Dr. Penny Wheeler, the president and CEO of Allina Health, and Father Joseph McShane, the president of Fordham University have little or nothing in common, yet they share some common traits as accomplished leaders. “Sunday Morning” Special Contributor Ted Koppel asks them about the most important elements of leadership, and what our nation seeks out in a time of crisis.”