In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Yesterday, I walked Zelda. And when i finally got my ipod shuffle to work with Songbird (open source, oh yeah) it was with a dump of just my highest-rated songs so i'm on a music high while doing so.
Boogieing in the last of the great fall colors, dancing to Aretha Franklin's Think in the pine needles on the side of the road. Fortunately, for the onlookers, I broke into a run for most of the rest of the time.
Beautiful day!
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I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
People Who Give a Damn
We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
— Frances Moore Lappé, quoted on EscapingTheMatrix.org