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Everything to Gain

July 16, 2008

What if you could right a wrong from your parents generation, and pass on a blessing to your children? What if you could build businesses in the community, cut crime, pollution, and disease, and make a profit doing it?

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Heroes, WorldChanging, TED, Sustainable South Bronx, Sustainability, Social Justice, Reorganization, Race, NYC, Majora Carter, Environment, Economics, Community, Cities, Business, BOF, Alex Steffen
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The Heart of Father’s Day

June 15, 2008

Fathers are parents as well; we deal with those who are tender, and weak, and unprepared. Our strength is employed to their good and enjoyed in their company. That is the true heart of a father. It is a context of relationship changes everything.

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Shelved with: Parenting|| Visions & Ventures|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Hollidays, War & Peace, Troy, Translation, Stories, Sarah Ruden, Parenting, Latin, Heroes, Harvard, Father's Day, Classics, Cities, Africa
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Family, Heroes, and History

February 12, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

One thing that Aldo Leopold did to become great was find, and use, his voice. His family was in many ways similar to mine and to thousands of others here in Wisconsin; his famous shack seemed completely familiar to us–just like Grandad’s place up north. But he made a difference in the world by figuring out what he had to say that was worth saying, and saying it wisely and well.

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Shelved with: History|| Reading the Land|| Continuing Stories|| Community & Time
Tagged With: History, Wisconsin, Sand County Almanac, Reading Leopold, Homer Daehn, Home School, Heroes, Environment, Energy, Education, Earth Day, Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Aldo Leopold
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Beowulf: Behold the Man

November 16, 2007

You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| The Reading Life|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Wisconsin Book Festival, John D. Niles, Theater, Stories, Seamus Heaney, Reviews, The Reading Life, Norman Gilliland, Movies, John Gardner, Heroes, Dick Ringler, Beowulf
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Real Life Superheroes

November 1, 2007

And for All Saints Day, a shout-out to Red Justice, Street Hero, Direction Man, the Super, and all the other Real Life Superheroes!

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Shelved with: Margin Notes
Tagged With: Community, Stories, Margin Notes, Heroes
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