A Passage To America
January 18, 2024
Aung San Suu Kyi, Cubans vs other Latins, cultural enclaves, democracy and social mobility, Ezra Pound, Getting Lost to Find Home, immigration, inclusiveness in the U. S., Inuit snow words, Inuits words for snow, Jabberwock., Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost's Mending Wall, shared prejudice6 Comments
In my mid-forties, one of my duties as the head of a local teachers union was to attend a national convention in Florida. My mother, in her sixties at the time, and, always eager to travel, suggested we take this opportunity to make a cross-country motor trip together. Though diff
Continue Reading →Changing the World, One Person at a Time — A test of our humanity
August 22, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi, Center for Courage and Renewal, Gandhi, Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Parker J. Palmer, Sara van Gelder
Someone on my Facebook page shared a quote by Leo Tolstoy that got my brain churning: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. I agree with Tolstoy’s observation. Change begins when individuals look within themselves. (My blog: 7/26/ 12) Blaming
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