Mindful Mentor Jim

17/11/2024

17/11/2024

Reminder from Heather Cox Richardson quoting Thomas Jefferson on public education:

In 1786, Jefferson wrote to a colleague about public education:

“No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness…. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against [the evils of “kings, nobles and priests”], and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”

When will we return to the wisdom of the past?

17/11/2024

17/11/2024

Robin Wall Kimmerer visits the cedar tree afterlife and relates how trees become soil and soil becomes trees again.

17/11/2024

Enjoy more than 100 streaming performances. Always free, thanks to audience members like you.

17/11/2024

I've kept this one very close, and I'm now excited to share it! My dear brother and friend, Paul Hawken, and I will deliver an experimental conversational lecture together, online, the 44th in the prestigious Schumacher annual series. We've titled it, "We can't get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder".

We are both inspired to say something about why the planet is inviting gestures beyond the bandwidth of solutionism. Beyond the manifold villainies of carbon proliferation and cancellation. A certain kind of desirous fugitivity, a wondrous straying-away-together, is beckoning. Together, we want to trace how that might happen. Indeed, how it already afoot!

December 4, 2024. Register today. It's free to attend.

https://centerforneweconomics.org/events/we-cant-get-there-from-here-carbon-climate-and-the-call-to-wonder/

Bayo Akomolafe

17/11/2024

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

17/11/2024

So heart-breaking and heart-rending, but important to share…

Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist hierarchies but also diversity in the early United States.

13/11/2024

From Rilke’s Book of Hours, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

“How surely gravity's law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

Each thing---
each stone, blossom, child---
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.

If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God's heart;
they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
tags: poetry

06/11/2024

https://youtu.be/cBRrj_OSE1g?si=C0Y6L7ULiKhTq9z5

What a fantastic song this is. Written by Keb' Mo', John Lewis Parker, and Beth Nielsen Chapman, “this tune was first released in 2018 but has become someth...

04/11/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-3-2024?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1sbu8e

History gives us hope!

I’m home tonight to stay for a bit, after being on the road for thirteen months and traveling through 32 states.

08/01/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100063475155257/posts/594560449336455/

There is a great wise loving silent awareness that is here already, behind and within us all, waiting to be realized as the source of who we are. Happy Holidays, from my family to yours. —Loch Kelly

04/01/2023

Tai Chi at 1 pm

14/12/2022

Tai Chi at 1:00 pm pst
Intermediate class 1:45 pm pst