Your intentions are great, but you have to deal with your impacts, and you have to be accountable for that. People are dying. We don’t have time for every single police officer to maybe realize that their humanity is being sacrificed. Structural changes are things we can do now. [In the meantime] raise your tolerance for discomfort: […]
Read: Reflections from Standing Rock and beyond
If you only read three items this weekend, make them these: 1. On the history behind the Standing Rock defense of the Missouri River and water supply in Illinois, Iowa, and the Dakotas I don’t understand why we are expendable in America.” —LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, tribal historian of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Standing Rock Sioux Historian: […]
Video: What empathy looks like
Everyone has a story. And that story runs through their entire life like a tapestry thread. This video from Cleveland Clinic asks: If you could stand in someone else’s shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?” The only audio on this […]
On Dodging Grief
My friend J Mase III, poet, writer, and co-founder of the weekly #qfaith Twitter chat, wrote an article about grief this week. He’d asked his followers about how others react to grief, what they say, and what we wish others said. Working on an article about grief. What do you wish someone said when you were grieving? […]
Committing to Compassion
I’ve been aware of Compassionate Action Network International’s Charter for Compassion for more than four years now. Yet I only signed it today. I’m not sure why. No reason I can think of sounds right. But when I re-read the text of the Charter today, I was struck by how worthy of endorsement it is, […]
Video: The Power of Outrospection
The 21st Century as the Age of Empathy? Check out Roman Krznaric in this RSA-Animated talk: The Power of Outrospection (ht: @FetzerInstitute)
