On the sidelines

We are collectively waiting.  Corporations wait with huge coffers of cash (Apple, for instance, is sitting on $98 BILLION).  The unemployment rate, officially, around 8.3% in February 2012, doesn’t include the long-term unemployed – we can guess that 10-15% of working-age people are sitting on the sidelines.  Entire industries (construction, finance, and to some degree manufacturing) [...]

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Saying no and saying yes

The problem:  Where to begin?  Income inequality in America, crumbling infrastructure, corporations trying to wrest control of the Internet, Citizens United, global warming….pick your issue! The solution:  Say no! —- and — Say yes to an alternative! I spent a lot of last year being outraged.  Well, I’ve been outraged a lot since 2008, watching [...]

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Occupy Chicago

“The people United. Can never be defeated.” We ARE the 99%. People – join me. It is time to WAKE UP. Now. Act!

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Helping Japan – what we can do

I asked my adult nephew Jonah Keegan and his wife Nayumi Mitsuka Keegan to be guest bloggers today with suggestions on how we ALL can help Japan in their time of great need. Asking for prayers for Nayumi’s family in the Sendai region as we pray for all the people of Japan.

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We CAN make a difference – killing ourselves with forks or choosing health

What we eat determines our health and well-being. Big Pharma, the food industry and the medical and insurance industries collude to present ‘facts’ which are inimical to our health. You make dozens of decisions each day that move you closer to health – or death. Choose wisely.

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Power to the People – Let’s Turn this Country Around!

Let’s not wait for the government or (worse) corporations to save this country and give the unemployed something to do – let’s get into action ourselves! Some ideas to get us started: LifeSchool, BodyShop, EarthForces and S.O.S. – Save our Society. Let’s go!

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Three Cups of Tea and unemployment – hmm…..

Greg Mortenson while broke and alone started building schools for girls in Pakistan. What could America’s legions of unemployed people do with their time (besides look for paying work!) to change America? it’s not like America doesn’t need help too! Seriously – I want YOUR ideas!

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Jean Houston: “called into greatness by the necessity of our age”

My teacher Jean Houston wrote:  “Regardless of how unfulfilled our lives may seem, regardless of how meager our self-esteem, we are called into greatness by the necessity of our age and have little choice but to say “Yes.” In the midst of the turmoil of too-rapid change, an extraordinary light has arisen. Factors unique in [...]

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Action leads to satisfaction – the power of incremental change

In the face of big challenges, incremental change is the key. Awareness, willingness, into action – one step at a time!

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“talkin bout a revolution – it sounds like a whisper”

“I’m going back to the ways of my youth – gonna go back and be who I want to be.” – Jethro Tull I think so often of the many things we got right way ‘back in the day’ – how so much of what our little band of hippies focused on turned out to [...]

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