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The Best Gifts Are A Shared Experience

July 23, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

When you’ve lived in a place a long time, you accumulate.There are all kinds of reasons for valuing something enough that you’ve kept it around. But one downside of this was revealed to me last winter when relatively warm days were followed by a … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: art of passing along what we value, Bill Perkins, Die With Zero, generosity, gift giving, keeping, letter to dying loved one, tribute to loved one, you cant take it with you

A Communion With Our Trash 

July 4, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I really don’t want anything more to worry about than I’m worrying about already.  But like you, deep in the reptilian part of my brain I’m alert to threats even though (much of the time) there’d be comfort in being oblivious to them … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: Chris Jordan photograph, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, gyre of plastic waste, Mark O.Connell, micro-plastics, plastic infused environments, plastic waste, plastics, The Ocean Clean-UP, Trash Islands currency

The Common Beat

June 4, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I’ve been finding lately that the biggest obstacle to feeling the common beat is other people.It’s just easier to imagine sharing the rhythm and release—that universal correspondence environmentalists always wax-on about—when it’s all of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: cross species cooperation, Darwin, Franklin Institute, Franklin Institute's Giant Heart, Kristin Ohlson, Robin Wall Kemmerer, Social Darvinism, The Book of Awakening, the common beat

Are We More (or Less) Ignorant Today?

April 26, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I suppose it’s good that I’m surprised by what I don’t know almost as often as I am by what seems to have escaped other people.  “Ignorant” is a kind of general, all-encompassing category when you’re describing somebody. I … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Continuous Learning Tagged With: are we more ignorant today, geography, ignorance, Ignorance A Global History, intellectual modesty, lay ignorance, lost knowledge, Peter Burke, selective ignorance

An Artist Needs to Write Us a Better Story About the Future

March 9, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

To make the hard decisions around climate change, we need the pull of a compelling story that tells us about all the great things that will follow and the ways we’ll be rewarded when we do. Because changing the ways we live and work will be hard, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: building blocks of the future, future vision, Hope in the Dark, imagination, purpose, Rebecca Solnit, story about the tuture

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