Valarie Kaur: Raising a Brown Boy in America
Click, scroll down and listen to her amazing, uplifting speech!!!
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/01/27/we-must-breathe-and-then-push
"In her speech, Kaur movingly told stories from her life - her grandfather imprisoned for his faith and other-ness, her fears about 'raising a brown boy in America,' her fervent imagining of the story of America as 'one long labor,' with a finer country 'waiting to be born.' Let it be so."
"In her speech, Kaur movingly told stories from her life - her grandfather imprisoned for his faith and other-ness, her fears about 'raising a brown boy in America,' her fervent imagining of the story of America as 'one long labor,' with a finer country 'waiting to be born.' Let it be so."
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ReplyDeleteSanders mocks Trump saying nobody knew health care is 'so complicated'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/bernie-sanders-obamacare-trump/
Let nobody say Trump doesn't have a sense of humor!
DeleteUdall Floats Plan to Confirm Gorsuch and Garland [Click] I doubt DT will go for it, but it is interesting.
ReplyDeleteWow, that Robert Reich column in Salon IS a dandy, listener--thanks!
And I just remembered a suggestion for DT--replace Sean Spicer with someone who obviously knows the job: Melissa McCatrhy! One more postcard...
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ReplyDeleteMargery Kempe was known for religious fervour, and a list in the manuscript of her pioneering autobiography has been analysed as a medicinal prescription[Click]Believed to be the oldest autobiography of a woman in the English language. Wow! Sounds like an incredibly interesting person.
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Here is an online transcription of The Book of Margery Kempe[Click]
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I encountered Margery Kempe years ago in my seminary studies. She is indeed interesting. My favourite, though is Evelyn (pronounced Eve'-Lynn) Underhill, the first woman to lecture at Oxford. She wrote the book on Mysticism. Literally.
DeleteOkay, the picture from Saturday the 25th, or I should say the "pictures" are on there way to Mitch and Paul. I trimmed off the part that showed the hep address and wrote them a note on the picture telling them that the selfish, negative, uncaring side is the way most Americans really see them. They'll probably never see it because I'm sure they have aids screening their mail, but it makes me feel better to send it.
ReplyDeleteI also have a picture with all four of them; Ryan, McConnell, Cheetolini and Bannon and the caption says "Proof you don't need to fly planes into buildings to destroy a country!" That one will go out tomorrow.
Susan! You are amazing!!! That photo with the saying "Proof you don't need to fly planes into buildings to destroy a country!" is phenomenal!! I want a copy! Send me one too!! 😎👏😄👍
DeleteIt occurs to me to wonder if Bannon is the American Rasputin; he certainly looks the part.
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Alan, you're giving Bannon way too much credit by that name. Bannon is no mystic or holy man. Egads. He's more the local Wormtongue. But I do find it interesting that the name Rasputin contains the name Putin.
DeleteProbably the best US analogy to Rasputin would be Joan Quigley--Nancy Reagan's court astrologer. Rasputin allegedly influenced Nicholas through Alexandra, whereas Bannon exerts his unsavory influence directly on Trump.
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listener--I continue to use the definition of mysticism that my Asian Philosophy professor gave us:
ReplyDeleteMysticism is the epistemological proposition that it is possible to have direct, immediate, valid knowledge of the truth.
I read up a bit on Evelyn Underhill; she is certainly interesting, but rather too heavy going for me. Granted that one must work within the available social confines, I find it really hard to follow through the contortions people must go through to (as it seems to me) interpolate a non-dualistic (i.e. mystic) point of view into an exoteric, dualistic frame of reference--be it Christianity or Islam (those two I have some familiarity with--surely there are others). I can easily see the similarities to my own experience, but their way (which is probably necessary for them) seems like cleaning the floor with a toothbrush while lying on one's back, when there is a mop standing right there, ready and easy to use, if one just stands up and grabs it. But what works for me presumably reflects a predisposition--I can clearly remember thinking when I was quite young (in grammar school) that the the truth, the truly true, what is true not just everywhere and for all time, but beyond space and time, must be so simple that the calculating human mind cannot grasp it. I developed from there--not in a linear way, I assure you. But why should such a thought come so clearly to me at such an early age and with my family and social background? I am sure I had never heard anyone say such a thing. Well, knowing or not knowing where it came from doesn't change it.
--Alan