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So many people want to do the right thing. With enough awareness, we start to see the world of injustices embedded around us. We might think, “all I need to …
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So many people want to do the right thing. With enough awareness, we start to see the world of injustices embedded around us. We might think, “all I need to …
In 2003, the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica premiered in the united states. Battlestar Galactica is a gritty science fiction series set in a politically complicated universe. The concept of the …
Another heatwave hit Seattle last week. It was mild compared to so many places in the world. I complained as the heat and smoke descended, a regular marker now for …
Last week, wildfires swept the region of Maui known as Lahaina. This is a place of great significance to kama’aina, or Native Hawaiians, everywhere. Before the u.s. government conquered and …
June is LGBTQIA+ Pride month in most of the united states. This is great news for people who want to sell things to us! I’ll back up. There’s a joke …
Last year I joined a coalition of small-business owners whose members are LGBTQIA+. They recently advertised a forum on community safety. Safety is a high-priority topic in most major cities …
Throughout his term, Barack Obama had a call for the activists agitating for change. He recalled what Franklin Roosevelt told his activists pushing for their own reforms. FDR said, “I …
Everything in the universe is in a constant state of change. The change can be imperceptible like the flowing water of a river. Or it may be more like the …
The Golden Rule is a central Christian tenet for most practitioners. For the unfamiliar the saying means (roughly), “treat others how you yourself want them to treat you.” Professor Leonard …
Last week, I said that our success in a system often means it’s tilted towards us. What I mean to say is that the systems that we live, work, and …