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Reflections
Chamber for personal reflections, for contemplation of text and images that reflect or echo other material on the website, and for selected news items that mirror our themes.
Personal Reflections
Chris Hedges: The Power of Imagination
Selected Breaking News
Everything Wrong with Humanity, in One Short Animation
Jared Diamond: We Could Be Living in a New Stone Age by 2114
Mending News: Amusing and Engaging Antidotes to Breaking News
Desmond Tutu, Pray for the Person Who Holds the Weapon
Michael Pollen on Intelligent Plants
How Smart Are Crows? Very Smart
What the Ancient Maya Can Tell Us About Living Well
8 Ancient Beliefs Now Backed by Modern Science
Iranian Criminals Are Being Sentenced to Read Books
The Netherlands: Van Gogh Flower Parade
A Moyers Recommendation, James Autry's On Paying Attention
The Individuation of God: Book Review by Leonard Cruz
I found this on an African website and wanted to share it with you.
An anthropologist thought he would test these African children. He placed a bowl of fruit underneath a tree and told them that the first one to reach the tree could have the fruit. When he told the children to run, they all took each others' hands and ran together. They all enjoyed the fruit together. This is the African concept of Ubuntu. In my opinion, it is also why Africa is preyed upon by the vultures untamed and let loose by other cultures.
When asked why they didn't run the course alone, they answered, UBUNTU! How can we be happy when others are sad?
UBUNTU in Xhosa is roughly translated, "I am because we are."
Now, if we could just get rid of those vultures.
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