empathy | empathy
May.25.2013
I had gotten up at 3 that morning (years ago), so the first time I watched the film “Spirited Away”, I nodded off.
The half-consciousness in which I found myself pulled in selections of sensory input which—when set amongst the film commentary of my fellow home-theater audience members (two 10...
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May.08.2013
Judgement yearns for Empathy, an intense yearning that makes him feel things in his heart and solar plexus that he doesn’t understand, and because of his lack of understanding, he ignores them, discounts them to nothing.
That’s the trouble with Judgement, he rarely thinks beyond what he knows. He...
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May.07.2013
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? -Henry David Thoreau
It is almost 7:00 a.m. and I carry my briefcase and lunch bag from the car to my office. I nod to some of the night shift employees heading home. Another...
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May.02.2013
Where have I been, people keep asking. Right here, it turns out, giving birth to two books I’ve been incubating for many months. If you’re on my e-list, you received a notice yesterday that my two new books, The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future and The...
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Apr.16.2013
Country-music star Brad Paisley has created quite a stir — and a satire –with his new single, “Accidental Racist,” in which he confesses that, being an entitled white male, he just. Doesn’t. Get. It.
Country music star Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J
It seems that a Starbucks...
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Apr.08.2013
Humbly pitching:
AMERICAN GALAXY: Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy + http://ugowach.tigblog.org/post/503605 + http...
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Mar.27.2013
Two mothers speak of the friend who has just lost her son in a most senseless act. Eyes brim weepy as a son's life has ended, as a mother's life fades grey.
How does a mother reason with a son gone, a life of future cut short without cause?
Weeps seep from glassy eyes.
The friends lift their...
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Dec.25.2012
These are tender times. The usual end-of-the-year retrospective ache has been amplified in the aftermath of so many storms, inner and outer. It’s often hard to know whether an ambient mood is the aggregate of personal response to the brokenness we are perceiving in world events or the opposite...
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Dec.03.2012
I always want to write in an authentic voice. So to do that, I dig around my subconscious for an experience, sometimes using a pick to break through my protective crust in search of that golden something. And when I strike that gold, it can literally explode inside of me and expose me to a rawness...
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Dec.02.2012
“Just be yourself.” How many times have you heard that? It is the advice given by friends, psychologists, life coaches and even career advisors. “Being yourself” is widely recognised as the best policy.
But what if that were not always the case? Of course, from other people’s point of...
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