It is supposed to be good for you, this sitting and staring at something for 5 minutes. Looking, studying, touching an object. Focusing only on the object. Training your mind to be present. And so I use the remote control, that neutral, boring object. You’re not supposed to let your mind wander, but I…
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Walking Brave
Day 13 – Owning Our Brokenness – Silver Linings Playbook
Day 12 – Self-Care Sunday
I listened to two NPR TED Radio Hour shows this week – From Curiousity to Discovery and The Source of Creativity. I love this program because it summarizes a few TED talks on a certain topic, and also interviews the speakers, so you get more than just a TED talk. These two programs were…
Day 11 – Songs for Saturday
Day 10 – It Is Worth It
Day 8 – The Way the World Works
Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work
A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work. So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up…
Day 6 – #Ferguson
This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of Walking Brave. #Ferguson has made it hard, if not impossible, for people to say ‘I didn’t know’. Maybe before, white people hadn’t really paid attention to ‘systemic racism’. Maybe you know people who actually describe it as – raise those fingers – “systemic racism” – because they…