December 2010
11 posts
You're richer than you think →
On privileged folks moving home
Tyrone: At the Revolutionary Giving session, we talked about the idea of living with/caring for families of origin. You posed it as a challenge to privileged people: “Would you be willing to move back home as part of your commitment to revolutionary giving?” It was pretty challenging and provocative for people. Could you talk more about what this idea means to you?
Tiny: There are a few...
“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my...”
– Mary Oliver
“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to...”
– Aurora Levins Morales.
I aspire to this, and I need people in my life who will hold me to this.
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love,...”
– If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
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Gary Snyder poem
The rising hills the slopes of statistics lie before us the steep climb of everything, going up, up, as we all go down In the next country or the one beyond that, they say, are valleys, pastures, we can meet there in peace if we make it. To climb these coming crests one word to you, to you and your children: learn the flowers go light.
“There is enough, everybody! There’s enough for you. There’s enough for me. We...”
– Keith Ellison, speaking to the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, June 26, 2010: http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/170691.shtml
