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Epiphanies, Not Resolutions

January 13, 2013

These are the questions of the New Year, and of the Seasons of Winter & Epiphany, as the days grow long & longer: Are you still seeking? What is your guide? What gifts do you bring?

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Tagged With: Holidays, New Year's Day, Seasons, Church Year, Epiphany
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Bugs Bunny Stole My Cognitive Surplus!

July 27, 2010

Bugs Bunny’s first appearance, July 27th, 1940, was nominated for an academy award.

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Tagged With: Bugs Bunny, Cognitive Surplus, Culture, History, Holidays, Psychology, Television
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Tagged With: Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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100 Days Citizen Test

April 29, 2009

On President Obama’s hundredth day: five questions for citizens.

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Citizenship, Dialog, Politics, Richard Harwood
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Can’t Take My Joy From Me (Michelle Shocked)

January 20, 2009

On this day, I think it is O.K. to be happy…. mog.com More about this song Share

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On Making the Future

January 1, 2009

To the extent that the future is shaped by human action, it is not much use trying to predict it ? it is much more useful to understand and work with the people who are engaged in the decisions and actions that bring it into existence.

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A National Day of Listening

November 27, 2008

Only connect. Don’t let the mundane stand in the way. Make the time. Be curious and honest, and keep an open heart. Find others to encourage and support you in this practice. It’s simple, but it can mean the world.

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Tagged With: Dialog, History, Holidays, Marriage, Marriage Encounter, National Day of Listening, NPR, Questions, Radio, Stories, Thanksgiving, Traditions
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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Wisdom versus Winning

November 3, 2008

After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Community, Debate, John McCain, Political Friendship, Politics, Wisdom
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Letter to a Young Voter

November 2, 2008

It’s late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you have everything figured out yet — just participate. Be devoted — make a sacrifice of devotion — to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.

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Tagged With: Aristotle, Cities, Citizenship, Community of Practice, Danielle S. Allen, Devotion, Political Friendship, Politics, Richard C. Harwood, Vote
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My Kind of Expert

October 24, 2008

“The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.”

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Tagged With: Experts, Humor, John Hodgman, Literary Criticism, Onion, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stories, Truth, Yale University
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Math Against Tyranny — Understanding the Electoral College

October 17, 2008

“Experts, scholars, deep thinkers could make errors on electoral reform,” Alan Natapoff decided, “but nine-year-olds could explain to a Martian why the Yankees lost in 1960, and why it was right. And both have the same underlying abstract principle.”

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Tagged With: Alan Natapoff, Baseball, Electoral College, Math, Politics, Sports, World Series
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