tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85740329970361388592024-03-13T07:14:12.814-04:00Searching for TruthLooking for some clarity.LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-81979190344730841812017-01-31T00:11:00.000-05:002017-01-31T00:17:14.917-05:00Recap Of Steps 1-3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm sorry for the delay in writing up a review -- busy, busy week.</div>
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<b>Lots of Updates.</b></div>
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1. Victoria did a wonderful job leading the Step 3 -- Such insights! And candy! Thank you, Victoria!</div>
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Kinde will be leading us through Step 4: Do Inner Work.</div>
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2. Reporter Judy Fahys will be recording on Feb 15 for a story that she is pitching to NPR. </div>
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3. Andrea Smardon is recording wonderful podcasts. I've listened to a few - but one that we think resonates with this group is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://changingourstories.org/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNFukmkMDhL2u24ERyy7pJOfuMAY1A" href="https://changingourstories.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Episode 3: Particle to Wave.</a> </div>
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She is also in the process of doing a podcast for the grief group - any and all who'd like to participate are encourage to keep a written or verbal journal about the experience and if you've noticed any changes or transformations. Or any insights you've gathered.</div>
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4. We'll have our movie night on March 1st instead of at the end of the step session. I found out today that I was accepted to be a mentor for the upcoming Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Denver, CO so I'll have to miss that week. I'll bring <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DXmo0DuZ59VY&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNEwSCMSGuCMzWVroX87LouZhkNwPA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmo0DuZ59VY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Fierce Light</a>.</div>
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So the revised schedule of steps:</div>
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">MARCH 8: 8. Look for beauty and meaning. </span><br />
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So, <b>Step 3 is all about letting go</b>: Letting go of expectations (those you've harbored for yourself and those of the future being what we expected or projected).</div>
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What's a realistic expectation for a single human being in this time and place? What did you imagine the future to be like? </div>
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Victoria opened the floor by inviting the bell - a tradition taught by Thich Nhat Hanh. And shared the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://modern-parables.blogspot.com/2007/07/buddhist-parable-on-possession.html&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNG2iMTa0ItCohiQ_gqDGwsdADCx6g" href="http://modern-parables.blogspot.com/2007/07/buddhist-parable-on-possession.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">parable about releasing our cows</a>. <b>How much and what can we let go of?</b> Which cows are you holding onto? A thought? A habit? A fear?</div>
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We chatted about the importance of <b>letting go the idea that we cannot control the behavior of others</b>. Does your family fail to understand the implications of climate change? Of what Trump's doing? Can we accept them where they are at?</div>
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How do we let go that our education failed us? That the way were raised may not have been great?</div>
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Can we let go of the need to stay positive? </div>
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<b>Mechanisms of Letting Go:</b></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Understand that people have differing perspectives. Can you see where they are coming from? Why do they believe what they believe? What am I not seeing? Why do I believe what I believe? Is there overlap?</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Use the mantra of "What is my part in this?" How am I creating these problems? What am I responsible for? </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Self Care - Our personal needs are not going away. We've got to take care of ourselves.</li>
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Can we let go of our own perspective? Is this what's needed for humanity in this time and place? <b>Can we remove our own filters and the way we see the world</b>?</div>
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OH - AND - <b>Letting go doesn't have to mean giving up</b>. It just means changing perspective and owning our limited power as a single human being. </div>
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We chatted about <b>Joanna Macy</b>'s great and wonderful work - and her book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/Active-Hope-without-Joanna-2012-03-13/dp/B017MYRR20/ref%3Dsr_1_1?ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1485837502%26sr%3D8-1%26keywords%3Dactive%2Bhope&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNGQPLSzSz1mqsiO1Ck2N7xB2qNOvA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Active-Hope-without-Joanna-2012-03-13/dp/B017MYRR20/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485837502&sr=8-1&keywords=active+hope" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Active Hope: How to Face this Mess We're in Without Going Crazy</a>. <b>Active Hope</b> is different than passive hope because we envision what the future looks like - we accept what may happen but work toward a better, more ideal future. Macy has a variety of suggestions how to get there. She's brilliant. Highly recommend her! Andddddd... Aimee recently purchased an extra copy of Active Hope. If you'd like it, I'll give the book to the first person who asks.</div>
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<b>We heard a wonderful story about a vacation on an island far, far away.</b> A phone, a lifeline to this busy life, was washed away in the ocean. And at first, she mourned the loss of everything on that phone and the connection (and the pollution now sitting in the ocean). But then she was able to be in the moment - where she was. She was off grid - in nature - meditating - being instead of doing. </div>
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We questioned Trump's decisions - and realized he's mentally ill and suffers from narcissism. He's creating a scary world that we're going to have to live in - but <b>what happens when structure falls away</b>? When the known world is challenged and changed? </div>
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Many if us asked for change - and we'll get it. It may not be ideal but change will happen. And <b>change drops us into mystery</b>, which at first seems scary but can be an opportunity for growth. We must <b>accept impermanence</b>. And let go of trying to control things and keep this world stagnant. <b>Mystery is humbling - it forces us into the present moment.</b> If we dig deep enough into the mystery - we find compassion and love. </div>
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Can we find a way to be excited about a new future? A lot about the past sucked - will some of those structures be changed? </div>
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This flowed into a conversation about <b>living in right relationship with the natural world. </b>We talked about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNFDMidbrhsHLGo_j4VMn774lNHmwA" href="http://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">the minimalist movement </a>- and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://frugalportland.com/applying-the-80-20-rule-to-your-stuff/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNGeRS9WT_5UVRKJuoWdRnvAuE7PwA" href="http://frugalportland.com/applying-the-80-20-rule-to-your-stuff/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">20/80 rule.</a></div>
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In sum, <b>we must let go of our ideas of what's "good' and "bad." </b>It's too simple. </div>
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What do we need?</div>
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Can we let stuff go? Can we let expectations go?</div>
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Andddddd - finally, I leave you with this article: "<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.grahameb.com/pinkola_estes.htm&source=gmail&ust=1485925504049000&usg=AFQjCNFnaJ3ivFb6JiFsxfa6F7wU_TYmBQ" href="http://www.grahameb.com/pinkola_estes.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">We were made for these times</a>."</div>
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Looking forward to seeing you Wednesday for a discussion about creating healthy minds - doing inner work - and confronting our shadow.</div>
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With Love & Gratitude,</div>
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-LS (<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 12.8px;">goodgriever@gmail.com</span><span aria-hidden="true" style="color: #555555; font-size: 12.8px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello Grievers, </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 25.6px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Derrick Jensen, in his essay “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504448000&usg=AFQjCNF8W5mWFV5EgBACyQKzwZaBmMMqfg" href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Forget ShorterShowers</a>,” says:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our conversation felt like it ended too soon - it was full of insight and penetrating questions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We talked about the <b>upheaval required to tackle climate change </b>(and systemic issues more broadly). If we look back at the <b>Civil Rights Movement</b>, it took people en masse on the streets, demanding change, risking arrest, rising bodily injury and death. <b>We glorify the result</b> (note: civil rights is still a struggle today...) without taking the time to understand the depth of the movement - all the preparation and courage and organizing and unity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have a million mini-movements that we can (and maybe ought to) invest our time in.... but how can we do everything? How can we show up to each rally/meeting that is important to us?<b> </b>And, where is everyone else?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How do we engage at all levels </b>- feet, mouth, and brain? (Some insights from a rad blog writer, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://infinitytrees.org/2017/01/18/disturbed-a-flashback/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNHMVfgBN3-Nsxr42zLoW_wGzN_cjw" href="https://infinitytrees.org/2017/01/18/disturbed-a-flashback/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We talked about how the <b>energy transformation</b> is well underway. Books like <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/Switch-solar-storage-means-cheap-ebook/dp/B017T7DZ76&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNFokNYkxAsIdHPPsPJtUnEJLwddiQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Switch-solar-storage-means-cheap-ebook/dp/B017T7DZ76" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Switch</a> or <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tonyseba.com/portfolio-item/clean-disruption-of-energy-transportation/&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNGnOLUVjAWsRsnYESQ05u1NzvrDeA" href="http://tonyseba.com/portfolio-item/clean-disruption-of-energy-transportation/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation</a> provide encouragement that we can produce <b>low or no carbon energy</b> regularly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We moved into a discussion about how <b>human beings are, at our core, irrational beings parading as rational machines</b>. Our intellect is at odds with our instinct. (See: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNG3X3hZLkKS-2VMm-CWgrEs-wq7Ug" href="https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Predictably Irrational</b>,</a> </span><b style="color: #101010; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Even-Think-About-Climate/dp/163286102X&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNElX0-nt72vzd9MziqULovJIPRcUA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Even-Think-About-Climate/dp/163286102X" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change</a>, </b><span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px;">and</span><b style="color: #101010; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> </b><b style="color: #101010; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/What-Think-About-Global-Warming/dp/1603585834&source=gmail&ust=1485925504449000&usg=AFQjCNGERNhEeVhRqbIekiuVs5rUqzmXrA" href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Think-About-Global-Warming/dp/1603585834" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action</a>)</b></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">So is the way out of this mess to focus on <b>self-work</b>? <b>Build psychological resiliency</b>? Where does<b> action </b>come in? What about folks who don't have the<b> privilege</b> of taking time to meet in community and self-reflect?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Of course, there is no hard conclusion: <b>"There are no answers, seek them lovingly."</b> And there was much more that I didn't capture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">But - we know that <b>we cannot show true compassion for others if we don't have it toward ourselves</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Now, onto <b>Boycotting the Trump Inauguration</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">1) Turn your television on during his inauguration</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">3) Creeper ratings programs in an NSA fashion will be able to figure out what percentage of the population is watching (and more importantly, IS NOT watching). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out tonight! And HUGE thank you to Alli for being such a great host!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">With Love,</span></div>
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Tonight was an amazing experience --- </div>
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We went through <span class="il">Step</span> 1:</div>
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<em style="background-color: #ebebeb; box-sizing: border-box; color: #50575f; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: inherit;">Admit there’s a problem.</em><span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #50575f; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;"> This first <span class="il">step</span> is about understanding that there’s a problem with how people are operating on this planet – and that as one result, some climate change is inevitable, even if we halt all carbon emissions now. “<span class="il">Step</span> one is talking about how entrenched we are in this problem."</span></div>
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The Good Grief Group moved deeper into the question and discussed the role of an activist and where idealism fits in. Does it fit in? What happens when one runs out of the idealism that's been pushing them forward? </div>
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So much gratitude for the thoughts and hearts of those who attended. </div>
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Here are some materials that we spoke about, in case anyone wants to dig deeper.</div>
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<b>Prince Ea</b></div>
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"<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DitvnQ2QB4yc&source=gmail&ust=1485925608147000&usg=AFQjCNH4S3eLpizUUpMtNcgwObXYThnfmw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvnQ2QB4yc" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Why I Think This World Should End</a>" </div>
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<b>Brene Brown</b></div>
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<b>Information on Tipping Points:</b></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://400.350.org/&source=gmail&ust=1485925608147000&usg=AFQjCNG02EZaQ4PZ3v4yIxmuuc-qdCzpNA" href="http://400.350.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://400.350.org/</a></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38146248&source=gmail&ust=1485925608147000&usg=AFQjCNGjlS3HU0COv1vMz9vZL6x_lIwFmA" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38146248" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/<wbr></wbr>science-environment-38146248</a></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/goodbye-world-weve-passed-the-carbon-tipping-point-for-good&source=gmail&ust=1485925608147000&usg=AFQjCNEw6vv9WyLYlT7fX8N9LHvZgBdexA" href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/goodbye-world-weve-passed-the-carbon-tipping-point-for-good" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://motherboard.vice.com/<wbr></wbr>read/goodbye-world-weve-<wbr></wbr>passed-the-carbon-tipping-<wbr></wbr>point-for-good</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #50575f; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;">2. </span><em style="background-color: #ebebeb; box-sizing: border-box; color: #50575f; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: inherit;">Acknowledge the ways in which we are complicit.</em><span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #50575f; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;"> “I think it’s really important for any of us looking at these problems to understand that yeah, we help cause them,” Schmidt says. “But it’s also not 100 percent our fault, because of the system we were born into.” This acknowledgment, she believes, allows people to take appropriate responsibility for the contributions they make, empowering them to make better decisions.</span></div>
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<span class="m_3701079812653932532gmail-size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">determined to save</span></div>
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<span class="m_3701079812653932532gmail-size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">the only life you could save.</span></div>
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LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-63970167676364860682014-11-15T11:30:00.000-05:002014-11-15T11:30:00.080-05:00Prayer and AttentionI<br />
don't<br />
know<br />
exactly<br />
what<br />
a<br />
prayer<br />
is.<br />
<br />
<br />
I do know how to pay attention.LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-71846246463016814082014-10-31T11:33:00.001-04:002014-10-31T11:34:39.893-04:00If You Like What You're Seeing...<span style="color: #674ea7;">Add my Facebook page:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Getting-Real-Conversations-that-Matter/680117442069192" style="background-color: yellow;" target="_blank">Getting Real: Conversation that Matter</a><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">#Truth</span>LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-53565002367753611972014-10-30T11:30:00.000-04:002014-10-30T11:30:00.216-04:00Avoiding Climate Burnout<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Climate trauma survival tips from Dr. Lise Van Susteren</strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Dos</strong></div>
<ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Take care of yourself physically and spiritually</b>, through healthy living and maintaining a balance in your professional and personal life.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Physical exercise</b> is essential — endorphins, the body’s natural pain killers, are secreted in response to exercise. Endorphins help fight psychic pain, too. Exercise also boosts your immune system. If you are stressed out and getting sick a lot — you need regular exercise. Swimming can be very soothing.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Get out of doors as much as possible</b> — connect with the forces that drive you and give yourself up to the beauty of nature in the present. Your energy to continue the battle will be rejuvenated.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Remember that <b>you are not alone</b>. There are lots of other people who may be just as traumatized as you are — they just aren’t talking about it. Some people are distracted by jobs that don’t constantly expose them to the realities. Unlike you, they can get away from it for a while.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Diversify</b> your work and your life: force yourself to participate in activities not related to climate.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Reinforce boundaries</b> between professional work and personal life. It is very hard to switch from the riveting force of apocalyptic predictions at work to home where the problems are petty by comparison. If you haven’t found another solution: Take 10 minutes, close your eyes, shut your brain down. If you don’t know how, Google “<a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=How+to+meditate&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=How+to+meditate&fp=KqtEvp1-d7s" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #bf7340; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">How to meditate</a>.”</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Connect with your fellow climate warriors</b>: Gather — Play games, dance, tell jokes. There is nothing like a laugh. Don’t talk about climate!</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Your fears are realistic</b>. But what you can do, or what you expect you can do, may not be.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Personal <b>therapy</b> can help. You wouldn’t be the first person to conflate some personal problems with what is happening to the planet. Although “we” are working on it, many professionals may not yet “get” the problem with climate.</li>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The don’ts</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Don't Overwork</b></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't do climate work at night. Having trouble sleeping? <b>Avoid climate related work at night</b>. Make sure to cut off the computer at least 2 hours before bedtime. The blue light emitted by computers suppresses a hormone that triggers sleep more than light from other parts of the spectrum. Additionally, turning out lights is not only good for the planet — the resulting incremental darkness sets the body up to sleep. Also, did you know that it can take as many as 9 hours for your body to completely break down caffeine?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't believe that you are invulnerable. In fact, <b>admitting what you are going through makes you more resilient</b>.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't Ignore signs and symptoms of burnout. Like an overused muscle — without some kind of <b>rest </b>or intervention burnout will only get worse.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't Forget that understanding the material does not require that you actually experience what is being spoken about.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Don't lose focus</b> on the essential tasks.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Don't give up!</b> Despite the forecast — we are working together like never before.</li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Droid Serif, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">Read more at <a href="http://grist.org/article/2010-05-12-coming-out-of-the-closet-my-climate-trauma-and-yours/" target="_blank">16 Tips for Avoiding Climate Burnout</a></span></span></div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-43578603364729753122014-10-29T16:40:00.002-04:002014-10-29T16:45:51.938-04:00Anything or anyone/That does not bring you alive/is too small for you<h2>
<b>Sweet Darkness</b></h2>
When your eyes are tired<br />
the world is tired also.<br />
<br />
When your vision has gone<br />
no part of the world can find you.<br />
<br />
Time to go into the dark<br />
where the night has eyes<br />
to recognize its own.<br />
<br />
There you can be sure<br />
you are not beyond love.<br />
<br />
The dark will be your womb<br />
tonight.<br />
<br />
The night will give you a horizon<br />
further than you can see.<br />
<br />
You must learn one thing.<br />
The world was made to be free in.<br />
<br />
Give up all the other worlds<br />
except the one to which you belong.<br />
<br />
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet<br />
confinement of your aloneness<br />
to learn<br />
<br />
anything or anyone<br />
that does not bring you alive<br />
<br />
is too small for you.<br />
<br />
-- David Whyte<br />
from The House of Belonging<br />
©1996 Many Rivers PressLaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-16433698638142433232014-10-26T14:54:00.000-04:002014-10-26T14:54:31.869-04:00Rumi Wisdom<h1 align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Sit, be still, and listen,<br />
because you're drunk<br />
and we're at<br />
the edge of the roof.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></h1>
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<h1 align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">― </span></i><i><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rumi<o:p></o:p></span></i></h1>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-52954863959602978102014-10-24T13:33:00.000-04:002014-10-24T13:33:34.312-04:00How I Want To Live<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">"I want to live my life as if it really matters, to live my life as if I'm alive, to live my life as if it's real." </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=502344616578328" href="https://www.facebook.com/derrick.jensen.56" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 21.466667175293px; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Jensen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Water-Reading-Writing-Revolution/dp/1931498784" target="_blank">Walking on Water</a></i></span></div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-46598063649220746542014-10-21T12:01:00.000-04:002014-10-21T12:01:00.073-04:00On Writing<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">My New Mantra</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">“remember,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">you were a writer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">you ever <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">put <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">pen to paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">just because you were not
writing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">externally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">does not mean you were not
writing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">internally.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">― Nayyirah Waheed</span></div>
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LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-58373664585491274842014-10-19T12:00:00.000-04:002014-10-19T16:20:32.720-04:00you are coming home/to yourselfbe easy.<br />
take your time.<br />
you are coming<br />
home<br />
to yourself.<br />
--the becoming | wing<br />
<br />
<br />
nayyirah waheedLaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-73183268558421901682014-10-05T12:05:00.000-04:002014-10-05T12:05:00.691-04:00To Be Brave<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We have to do something braver than just try to save the
world we have known, we must accept the fact that the world we have known is
going to change in hideous and damaging ways.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">―
</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill
McKibben<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-3845765803679659132014-10-02T13:09:00.000-04:002014-10-02T13:09:00.306-04:00Revolution of Self<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-85268630913143563552014-09-30T12:00:00.000-04:002014-09-30T12:00:06.694-04:00The moment you may be starting to get it right.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, </div>
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that's the moment you may be starting to get it right." ~Neil Gaiman</div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-78235124516189769752014-09-24T17:39:00.000-04:002014-09-24T17:40:20.384-04:00Do not try to save/the whole worldClearing<br />
by Martha Postlewaite<br />
<br />
Do not try to save<br />
the whole world<br />
or do anything grandiose.<br />
Instead, create<br />
a clearing<br />
in the dense forest<br />
of your life<br />
and wait there<br />
patiently,<br />
until the song<br />
that is your life<br />
falls into your own cupped hands<br />
and you recognize and greet it.<br />
Only then will you know<br />
how to give yourself<br />
to this world<br />
so worth of rescue.LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-52327205918494517842014-09-21T22:16:00.000-04:002014-09-21T22:50:12.321-04:00"This is what democracy looks like"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"If the planet gets sick, we get sick.... If the planet dies, we die. The trees help us breathe."</div>
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"Animals being hurt makes me sad. Because they are special and part of this world."</div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-29949377539125447122014-09-12T19:38:00.002-04:002014-09-12T19:38:52.062-04:00You Finally Knew What You Had to DoThe Journey<br />
Mary Oliver<br />
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One day you finally knew<br />
what you had to do, and began,<br />
though the voices around you<br />
kept shouting<br />
their bad advice--<br />
though the whole house<br />
began to tremble<br />
and you felt the old tug<br />
at your ankles.<br />
"Mend my life!"<br />
each voice cried.<br />
But you didn't stop.<br />
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You knew what you had to do,<br />
though the wind pried<br />
with its stiff fingers<br />
at the very foundations,<br />
though their melancholy<br />
was terrible.<br />
It was already late<br />
enough, and a wild night,<br />
and the road full of fallen<br />
branches and stones.<br />
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But little by little,<br />
as you left their voices behind,<br />
the stars began to burn<br />
through the sheets of clouds,<br />
and there was a new voice<br />
which you slowly<br />
recognized as your own,<br />
that kept you company<br />
as you strode deeper and deeper<br />
into the world,<br />
determined to do<br />
the only thing you could do--<br />
determined to save<br />
the only life you could save.LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-87344755441695949622014-09-05T17:00:00.000-04:002014-09-05T17:00:06.741-04:00To Nourish Your Soul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens:
ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to
nourish your soul!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere." ~<a href="http://www.abbeyweb.net/" target="_blank">Edward Abbey</a></div>
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My goal is to never stop looking.</div>
LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-86026166040975733872014-07-06T20:06:00.001-04:002014-07-06T20:06:40.957-04:00knowing there is a chance/our hearts may have only just skinned their kneesAndrea Gibson: "The Madness Vase/The Nutritionist"<br />
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(Best part of the poem)<br />
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So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin<br />
don't try to put me back in.<br />
Just say, "Here we are" together at the window<br />
aching for it to all get better<br />
but knowing there is a chance<br />
our hearts may have only just skinned their knees,<br />
knowing there is a chance the worst day might still be coming<br />
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let me say right now for the record,<br />
I'm still gonna be here<br />
asking this world to dance,<br />
even if it keeps stepping on my holy feet.<br />
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You, you stay here with me, okay?<br />
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You stay here with me<br />
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When despair for the world grows in me</div>
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I go and lie down where the wood drake</div>
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I come into the peace of wild things</div>
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who do not tax their lives with forethought</div>
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of grief. I come into the presence of still water.</div>
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And I feel above me the day-blind stars</div>
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waiting with their light. For a time</div>
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I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.</div>
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Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from <em>The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry.</em> Copyright © 1998. Published and reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press.<br /><br />
Source: <em id="source_865471975">Collected Poems 1957-1982</em> (Counterpoint Press, 1985)</div>
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LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-9290301176522374662014-06-17T10:00:00.000-04:002014-06-17T10:00:04.748-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f1c232; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I’ve met very few baby boomer liberals who understand what it means to be a young person facing the reality of climate change. It means that we’re never going to have the opportunities that our parents’ and our grandparents’ generations had, and that we’ve got this massive burden weighing on our future."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232; line-height: 17.066667556762695px;">Maybe we can do better. But that’s not inevitable any more than the ugly path is inevitable, which to me is why our engagement now is really, really critical."</span></div>
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<span class="" id="parent-fieldname-title-7ea68c5d387d43fbaf5ae117fd97c01c"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boomers "Failed" Us: Climate Activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher" target="_blank">Tim DeChristopher</a> on Anger, Love, and Sacrifice</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-power-of-story/boomers-failed-us-america-s-most-creative-climate-criminal-anger-love" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-power-of-story/boomers-failed-us-america-s-most-creative-climate-criminal-anger-love</a>LaUrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09185010101765015414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574032997036138859.post-28281313777594127942014-06-15T15:43:00.003-04:002014-06-15T15:43:38.661-04:00Memorize this Great World<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.391998291015625px;"> “Fight like hell. But be a witness, too. Go see the whales, the rainforests. There’s no guarantee we’ll save them all. Memorize this great world, the one we were born into. Tell others in the future. Their mistakes might be fewer if they know the greatness we once saw.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.391998291015625px;">~</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.391998291015625px;"><a href="http://www.billmckibben.com/" target="_blank">Bill McKibben</a>, 2005, speech at Middlebury College</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.391998291015625px;">As cited by <a href="http://chesapeakeclimate.org/mike-tidwell/" target="_blank">Mike Tidwell</a> in his "Rites of Passage" piece:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we
cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are
loved."</span></div>
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