by Susan | Dec 17, 2022 | essay, inspiration
This illustrated talk by Jeremy Rifkin explains some of the neuroscience of empathy:
by Susan | Dec 14, 2022 | essay, inspiration
From filmmaker Michael More: “This morning I have been pondering a nearly forgotten lesson I learned in high school music. Sometimes in band or choir, music requires players or singers to hold a note longer than they actually can hold a note. In those cases, we...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2022 | essay, inspiration
Twice a month the peaceCENTER used to have an evening potluck/staff meeting/re-centering and Narjis would bring a crockpot of homemade soup, often made with produce from her community garden. “What is it this time?” I asked her, greedily. “Burnt...
by Susan | Aug 7, 2022 | essay, inspiration
These two quotations seem to go together somehow. Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, using the analogy of a rolled up newspaper, a tube, to explain the limitations of our vision. And then Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the Astrophysicist, whose world is expanded by looking...
by Susan | May 27, 2020 | essay, inspiration
by Susan Ives There’s a meme going around that says, “Of all the things I learned in elementary school, avoiding cooties was the last one I expected to use.” Are cooties still a thing? The kids from the old neighborhood – all of us in our 60s now – gave that a...
by Susan | May 21, 2020 | essay, inspiration
“I live in Plum Village, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, an area known for its sunflowers. But people who come to Plum Village in April do not see any sunflowers. They hear people saying that there are many sunflowers around, but they cannot see them...
