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Stand Up To Cancer

by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Care, Film, Health, Jewish, Sci/Nat, Women

Laura Ziskin March 3, 1950 – June 12, 2011 Cancer kills 1,500 people a day, 1 person every minute. 1 out of 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer. Only 1 in every 10 promising research proposals is funded by the federal government. Click to email a link to a friend...

‘You Look Great’ and Other Lies (how to be with a sick person)

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Care, Death, Health

From my point of view, besides the good tips below, just BE with the other person, NO need to fill in the gaps. Presence is 100 percent of life. ================================================================= An excerpt from the NYTimes article by Bruce Feiler: The...

Women for Peace: Code Pink

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

CODEPINK emerged out of a desperate desire by a group of American women to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq. The name CODEPINK plays on the Bush Administration’s color-coded homeland security alerts — yellow, orange, red — that signal terrorist threats....

Why (Some) Women Should Govern

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Roma, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

From the NYTimes: Kathryn Pearson, an expert on Congress at the University of Minnesota: her studies of the House show women introduce more bills, participate more vigorously in key legislative debates. From the Harper Collins website for the book “Why Women Should...

Freedom (Nirvana) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay-Teacher)

by Pier Marton | Jun 6, 2011 | Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Ego, Health, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Time

Thich Nhat Hanh/Buddhism: “All views are wrong views.” Lavoisier: “Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd” – (Nothing is created, nothing is lost). Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...

Ajahn Chah/Achaan Chah/?? ??????? – The Mindful Way

by Pier Marton | Jun 3, 2011 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Eco, Health, Ideas, Mystery, Time, Travel, Wars

The BBC program (in three parts): Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus