Monthly Archives: February 2017
This emerging vision of a social structure defined by love, which we’ve been exploring since the Women’s Marches on Washington, goes by many names: intersectional feminism, eco-social sustainability, social democracy (arguably), the indigenous model (very possibly). The difficulty in naming it as a vision or movement or party (yikes) might be because it is really just love and emotional maturity.
What we have in the current Republican regime couldn’t be further from the freedom possible within a structure of love.
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Empathy is absolutely essential if you value the human spirit and all of humankind. In fact, without it, it’s impossible to experience that oneness that every religion teaches is the universal reality that contains all life and God and the infinity of space. Empathy is that capacity to experience our connection with each other and all living beings. Empathy is the sentient equivalent of gravity: it’s what binds us together. Any movement concerned with human rights, the health of the planet,
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by H. John Lyke and Kathryn Robyn
I’m so glad I’m still alive at 84, for I’m a good example of someone who has learned so much in the past decade. Watching the coverage of the Women’s March on Washington, Saturday, January 21, the day after watching the inauguration of an unqualified president has moved me beyond understanding. Both my daughters traveled from other states—one in Colorado and the other, New Jersey—to attend that DC march, and my colleague Kathryn attended a “sister march” closer to her home in Maine,
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Yes indeed, it would appear President Trump will do anything to be perceived as a winner, even if it’s done at somebody else’s expense. Being president of our beloved country may possibly represent the epitome of what he believes winning is all about, and in his thinking, “It doesn’t get any better than that.” He can’t seem to do anything other than reaching for the gold medal and winning at all costs. Being president of the most powerful nation in the world certainly complies.
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