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Archive for February 22, 2018
This week’s inspiring video: What If We Believed That No Lives Mattered Less Than Other Lives?
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Video of the Week
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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What If We Believed That No Lives Mattered Less Than Other Lives?
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| "Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. Each year over 10,000 former gang members from across Los Angeles come through Homeboy Industries’ doors in an effort to make a positive change. They are welcomed into a community of mutual kinship [and] love…Full-time employment is offered for more than 200 men and women at a time through an 18-month program that helps them re-identify who they are in the world, offers job training so they can move on from Homeboy Industries and become contributing members of the community – knowing they count!" |
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All aging is successful because otherwise you are dead. Living needs aging. There is no best or right way to age. Each of us will make different accommodations and find different meanings.
– Ashton Applewhite –
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Living Needs Aging: A Conversation with Ashton Applewhite
In this interview ageism expert Ashton Applewhite discusses what she has learned over the course of her work. “People literally don’t realize that it is no more acceptable to criticize someone on the basis of age than on the basis of anything else about themselves, I think the most important thing to think about is language– because we live in a youth-oriented society, we tend to use young to equate with good things and old with bad things…I started interviewing people over eighty who worked. Everything I learned about these remarkable people I was meeting and from my own research completely contradicted all these notions I had about what it would like to be that old, about immobility, about the way you move through the world, the way you see yourself. I assumed that older people were depressed because they were really old and going to die soon. In fact, older people have better rates of mental health than young or middle aged people because of neurological changes that occur in the brain. It was hard for me to believe that people were less afraid of dying as they got older…. It is a function of the fact that the awareness that time is short doesn’t fill people with dread; it makes them spend their time more wisely.” { read more }
Be The Change
Ashton’s Applewhite’s Consciousness Raising Guide. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 