Content From Curious Curators
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
Today’s National Day of Mourning can help us build toward justice for all: How to Use Anger as a Catalyst for Action
A perspective on social media activism. Don’t be a Scott!
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…
A very ‘eye opening’ (pun intended) exercise…
How can you help build resilience in your child? Here are 8 things to consider: 8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do
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
“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
Now more than ever with the advent of new audio and video — like ‘deepfake’ — technologies to ‘stay woke, bitches’…
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.”
“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.
Five tips to harness the benefits of confinement: The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat
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
Bright, Shiny Objects! 
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