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October 16, 2023

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Greater Good Resources for Peace & Conflict

“Here at the Greater Good Science Center, the war between Israel and Hamas is provoking a range of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, and more. Were reading the news every day and wishing that there were more we could do to help.As an educational nonprofit, the best we can do, perhaps, is to remind ourselves and our readers that peace is always possible, the vast majority of people resist killing, even the most violent primates are capable of change, there are steps we can all take to bridge our differences, and activism can make the world a better place. Weve gathered articles below to help you understand the roots of peace, war, and reconciliation; get involved in activism; and support your well-being and your childrensincluding reminders of human goodness in times of conflict…” { read more }

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October 15, 2023

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Peace Pilgrim’s Last Interview

How far would you go to “live” on a daily basis something you believed in? Would you go over 25,000 miles? Would you spend over twenty-five years on the journey? And what would you need to be able to show for it in order to consider your effort a success? Read this remarkable interview with the woman who zig-zagged across the United States more than six times on foot as a way to embody peace and inspire others to “do something for peace, in their own way” { read more }

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This week reflect on one way you can grow peace within yourself; then challenge yourself to express that inner peace in an outward action.

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October 14, 2023

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The Irrepressible Matriarchs of the North

Sharon Blackie’s latest book, “Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life,” braids together myth, psychology and memoir. Within itm Blackie makes a passionate case for menopause as the threshold to a vital and rich phase of life, and she deftly explores the what flourishing at this stage when many assume decline, can look like. Surfacing little-known, yet potent elder women in European myth and folklore, she inspires readers to revision the last decades of life as perhaps the most powerful of all. “Hagitude,” writes Sharon Blackie, “is dedicated to ‘the feisty and irrepressible old matriarchs of the far north-east of England, who enlivened my younger years and taught me never to let the illegitimi get me down.’ And indeed, growing up in County Durham, my childhood was dominated by old women….” Read an excerpt here. { read more }

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Join a special conversation with Sharon Blackie on the theme of metamorphosis. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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October 13, 2023

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The Blessing of Aging

This delightful video features several women and men who are facing the realities of aging with humor and vitality. They talk about the advantages that aging has brought to their lives, including the loss of inhibitions, learning new things, and focusing on what they enjoy. They are full of life, curiosity and passion. As one gentleman states, “Getting old is out. Getting older is better.” { read more }

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Reflect on your own perspective on aging for yourself and your loved ones. Has that perspective changed as you get older yourself?

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October 12, 2023

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FOLI: There is No Movement Without Rhythm

“Life has a rhythm, it’s constantly moving.
The word for rhythm ( used by the Malinke tribes ) is FOLI. It is a word that encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound. It’s found in every part of daily life. In this film you not only hear and feel rhythm but you see it. It’s an extraordinary blend of image and sound that feeds the senses and reminds us all how essential it is.” Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg’s stunning short film portrays the people of Baro in Guinea, and offers a window into their rich culture of rhythm. { read more }

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Seek to find the rhythm within the actions of your daily life today.

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October 11, 2023

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6 Compensations for Sleeplessness

“1. The Sky. Trust me when I tell you that the most stunning part of a sunrise comes way before those predictable smears of oranges and reds. In the nights east, watch the blackness for the outline of a cloud to brighten. Thats the signal for what occurs next, a lightening so gentle you might barely notice it until you look up and see that the sky has already paled, is now almost translucent. When those more famous colors finally appear, you might come to feel, as I have, that they are as showy as drummers banging snares, especially compared to the fleeting delicacy you have just witnessed.” Debbie Urbanski shares five more beautiful “compensations for sleeplessness,” here. { read more }

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Consider the unexpected gifts you have discovered in the dark.

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October 10, 2023

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Meeting Gojira: A Conversation with Craig Nagasawa

“There’s this idea that, as an artist, your job is to put your ego into your painting and push it at everybody else, that a good painting is ‘full of you’ somehow.But the art I like is made when the artist actually has gotten out of the way. At some point doing a painting, it literally feels like I’m the one stopping it with my decisions, and my aesthetic–and all that stuff about, ‘I’m the artist and I’m in control.’ At some point, in a given painting, I can arrive at a place where I realize that in order to go on, I have to give up something I started with. It could be an idea, it could just be a feeling of something and, if I can let that happen, the painting has a chance to find something unexpected.” Read more about painter and UC Berkeley art professor Craig Nagasawa’s dramatic journey in this remarkable interview.

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If there was a Gojira around to scare you into “waking up” are there some things you could imagine as being helpful to discover in your day to day life?

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Inspiring Links of the Week

October 9, 2023

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Coming to Our (Animal) Senses

“The term ‘resource’ always befuddles me. If we would simply drop the prefix, ‘re,’ whenever we use the term, it would become apparent that we’re almost always talking about ‘sources’, like springs bubbling up from the unseen depths. But when we put that little prefix in front of the word, and speak of things as ‘resources’, we transform the enigmatic presence of things into a reserve, a stock of materials simply waiting for us to use. When we conceive it as a stock of stuff, then there naturally comes a sense that that stock is limited, and bound to run out. If I sense the things of this earth not as a resources but as sources, if I feel them as wellsprings bubbling out of the unknown depths, well, this is not to deny that many of those springs seem to be drying up. This is a horrific circumstance that we’ve gotten ourselves into. But the way beyond this mess has to involve, first, a reconceiving and a re-seeing and sensing of this wild-flowering world as something that cannot ever be fully objectified, a zone of unfoldings that can never be understood within a purely quantitative or measurable frame.” David Abram shares more in this interview with Dougauld Hine. { read more }

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For more inspiration check out, “The Ecology of Magic,” by Abram. { more }

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