thinking thursday
mind
“What I like about this study is how it assumes that love is an action.” In such a way, love is a verb. I love the list of questions. For several years, I’ve had this crazy idea of hosting a community dinner, inviting a whole town to the convention center or great meeting hall to find tables for 2, with linens and table settings. Everyone gets a table number and sits across from a stranger unlike them for dinner, asking and answering questions in the manner of this study. Because I know by the time dessert was served, people would be seeing the person across from them as an individual, not as a category, as a “who,” and not a “what.”
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I’m not sure if I’ve shared my love of Scrivener here before. If not, here are some good reasons to look into it. Also here.
body
This recipe has been getting a real workout at our house.More black beans than you can shake a stick at.
spirit
Love your kids. Leave them alone: The Art of Radical Parenting – “I had been parenting backwards. I had been using an old paradigm of control even as I professed to be more ‘enlightened.’ The truth was that although I said many of the right words, tried hard and smiled a lot, I was often holding out bait for my children while carrying a stick behind my back. I still believed that sometimes bribes, threats and punishment were the only ways to keep peace and order.” This is true not only of children, but of everyone–employees, community members, family members.word
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” -Elie Wiesel
(photo by Trace Spence from here)
