There comes a time in one’s wisdom journey where healing personal wounds is outgrown and replaced by a concern for the collective “woundedness” of our planet and humanity at large. These shared, universal wounds — poverty, pollution, oppression/terrorism, disease, etc.…
Now that we are well into this millennium’s second decade, three universal truths — facts or beliefs accepted as true and applicable across all cases — have risen to dominance in my life. Certainly 20 years ago (possibly only 10)…
There comes a time in one’s wisdom journey through life where healing personal wounds is outgrown and replaced by a concern for the collective wounding of the planet and humanity at large. These shared or universal wounds — poverty, pollution, oppression/terrorism — are stored in the deepest grooves of the human brain and, overtime, negatively altered our DNA passing from generation to generation in their groundswell of enmity.
Even in childhood I recall I understood the basic difference between right and wrong. I might not have been able to articulate my experience, but I could feel the sensation of guilt if I did not do what was right…
When priorities appear to compete with each other for moral high ground and resources, how do we process these complex challenges into meaningful decisions? Complex priorities: • equal rights for women versus selling arms to Saudi Arabia • a healthy…
As Manitobans head to the polls for the April 19 provincial election, I think it is fair to say party politics locally and across Canada are going through major upheaval. At the federal level, both Conservative and NDP parties are…
For the past 30 years I invited many friends to consider communal living, either locally or abroad. The conversation would flourish primarily for two reasons: • none of us wanted to live in a “drugged and drooling old folks home”…
I am pondering the possibility that globally we are an addictive society. If we were to suspend our defensiveness and open our minds to this possible truth, then is it also true that each of us has been or still…
In 2014, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reported the top 100 richest CEOs in Canada earned a combined total of $896 M for this one year of work. On the other hand, the average full-time employee in Canada made…
They just aren’t getting it. By they, I mean the large conglomerates publishing the daily news around the world. Over 20 years ago, I quit watching the news
and reading the daily papers because the only stories reported were negative — terrorism, violent crimes, wars, natural disasters, death tolls. Shortly thereafter, enough of the global population must have made their dissatisfaction known as a common occurrence emerged on every news station — the reporting anchor ended her/his reading of depressing stories with one positive event.
Well, a ratio of 10 negative to 1 positive does not a true picture make.
The mass migration of over four million Syrian refugees into the European Union poses a second opportunity for that collective of countries (as well as the entire world) to extend compassion and share resources with those in need. Greece’s near…
In my blog last week, EU Collaboration: No Matter What, I posed this question, “Where does global society need to collaborate and what new economic innovations do we need to co-create in order for all countries, not just Greece, to…
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