Ethics
Gratitude Galore aka Thank You Movement
So, when this whole business of gratitude became the rage of mental health and social media, I agreed with its essence but then thought people had fully gone overboard. Thirty Days of Thanks? National Gratitude Day? Daily Gratitude Lists? No Thanks. But, I take it back. In the midst of so much uncertainty in people’s […]
Read More....Do We Have Freedom of Thought?
When we first went on-line, we all thought that we are entering an information age which will give us all ultimate freedom. We will all have access to the same information. We were about to enter an era of democracy and free thought at its height. But a mere two decades from the start of […]
Read More....Ideas and Friendship
TED – Ideas Worth Spreading: innovative creations, thought provoking concepts, mind expanding ideas. And then there is this: “How Our Friendship Survives Our Opposing Politics”. The talk itself is great. The question I have is how did we get here? When did we become so insular and close-minded that we need a TED Talk devoted […]
Read More....Would You Save A Stranger or Your Dog
Recently I was struck by my facebook newsfeed. Topping my feed with 200 likes and 63 comments and counting was news of a friend’s dog – passed away the previous night. The condolences and sincere heartfelt sadness was clear in every comment. A close second and directly below it was a posting of another friend’s […]
Read More....To Share or Not To Share
We live in an age of sharing – our thoughts, our images, our past, our future. On the one hand- what’s better than sharing and connecting? We need to share to survive- it’s true no man is an island. And babies who are starved of human connection… die. On the other hand- could we go […]
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