Innate playfulness

Children come into the world burning to learn and genetically programmed with extraordinary capacities for learning. They are little learning machines. Within their first…

We need new dreams

Desert sky Dream beneath a desert sky The rivers run but soon run dry We need new dreams tonight U2 “In God’s Country” from The…

Joined our fate

The desperate, frantic, and anxious character of much of our lives, as well as the languishing of many of the earth’s habitats, suggests that…

Discovery of reality

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love … is the discovery…

Power of recognition

People view hospitality as quaint and tame partly because they do not understand the power of recognition. When a person who is not valued…

Dying country

I tell you a closed country is a dying country, just as a closed mind is a dying mind. Zoltan in Bravo!: Play in Three…

Remember and change

The challenge of reconciliation is how to open the social space that permits and encourages individuals and societies to acknowledge the past, mourn the…

We can welcome

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals….

Authentic persons

Social interaction is organized around the boxes and lines on the social checkerboard. We relate primarily to persons in our own square and in…

Outsiders

{Deviance} is created by society. I do not mean this in the way it is ordinarily understood, in which the causes of deviance are…