Tag Archives: well-being

Damage





One of the largest non-profit organizations I know (which has done some solid work in the past) just fired 100 people, not for cause, one of whom has worked for them for over 25 years, without any notice, cut off their e-mail, basically out the door and thank you very much.

The excuse given for the abrupt dismissal was that a few people in the past who were laid off had done things that were detrimental to the institution.





What do you think the chances are of this institution doing solid work in relationship to the well-being of anyone?









Daily Exercise

“This exercise requires no movement, no thinking and most of all no judgement or evaluation” After you are awake and you realize you live in a miracle, everything is inter-connected and there is always a choice, do the following: Watch a creature, a bird, an ant, a dog, person or ...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” It is my experience ...

Age

As i began living my 74th year, years, months, hours and minutes have all become much less significant. As i focus on how i am being in this second, i find my clarity around how the world is doing sharpened considerably. How about you? ...

Crap

As in Who Gives a Crap! This is what corporate responsibility looks like: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/pages/about-us Recently i received notice that the company had donated another half a million dollars to create toilets for those 2.3 Billion who do not have one. Their products are outstanding and ecologically sound. Would you like ...

Perspective

Yesterday, a relatively powerful storm interrupted electrical power to 219,000 households in Maine. Today, some were told that it may be three days until power is restored. Globally, 1.2 Billion people have little or no access to power at all. Perhaps we might want to think from time to time ...

Fall colors

There are a million differentiated colors on display in New England in the US at this time of year! And this has been a spectacular demonstration of the beauty in our world this year! In my experience it is nothing compared to the miracle of you! ...

IN THE FACE MIRACLES

Right this second you are participating in an absolute miracle. The question is, do you experience it? If you are able to see, a collection of between 10 and 50 trillion cells are organized so well that you can see, read and understand these words. Can you "see" (pun intended) ...

Breathing

It doesn’t sound like much. Or does it. To me, each breath means I am still alive and that life itself is miraculous. What could be more practical or more magical than the experience that this second, this breath is a miracle? ...

Evil

Evil is a concept begun to allow us to act as if it were a force beyond our influence. Nothing could be further from the truth. The moment I realize every action I take is important, contributes either positively or negatively to the world, evil has no power. Whose responsibility ...

Ownership Does Not Equal Guilt

In the situations I have witnessed, there is no divine intervention. All we have is each other. We create our own problems, and it is up to us to solve them. Deliberately to remove oneself from this dialogue is a way of turning one’s back and confirms the sad proposition ...

Solutions Are In Our Hands





Today is the men’s final at Wimbledon and during a rain delay, the television network did a background piece on Andy Murray who is from Dunblane, Scotland. He was in the school where sixteen children, five and six years olds, and one of their teachers were gunned down in 1996.


Again today, the commentators referred to the shootings as if no one could understand how such a thing could come about.



What will it take for us to finally understand that violence and damage are the result of violence and damage to which we all contribute. Until we accept responsibility for that which we endorse, encourage, ingest, ignore and justify, it will never change?








Innocent Bystanders


The other day I watched as a couple drove into the parking lot of a supermarket, parked and walked toward the store, only to return to the car fighting and shouting at each other, in and out of the car, for about ten minutes.




I wondered what it must have been like growing up in that house?