From Bob Edwards Show on NPR
http://www.bobedwards.info/ftopic976.html
"Social thinker and author JEREMY RIFKIN'S latest book looks at emerging scientific studies that show humans are not naturally aggressive and self-interested, but fundamentally empathetic. Rifkin's book, "The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis," is a new interpretation of the history of civilization, focusing on the development of human empathy."
Enjoy the Listen
Here's an exercise from Tel Aviv via Al Jazeera program Witness
"Moshe Cohen is a 'garbage archeologist'. His life on the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel's capital city, is dedicated to plundering the city's dumpsters looking for discarded objects, often things thrown away after recent death.
He collects artefacts, antiques and things which he believes tell a personal, historical story - everything from old Palestinian passports, to suitcases, to bedsheets, clothes or pictures.
Occasionally there will be something valuable, an antique or a gold watch, but mostly his daily activities just chronicle the day-to-day history of Tel Aviv.
The film follows him around Tel Aviv as he is traveling the streets collecting rubbish."
Part 2
In the Strangers Stroll
There is Life
In the Child's Laughter
There is Life
Feeling helpless, yet hopeful
There is Life
Saying a Selfless kind Word
There is Life
Listening to another's need to talk
There is Life
The Bird's Flight with song
There is Life
Giving a dollar instead of spare change
There is Life
To be Continued
There is Life
Peter/Alley
2 comments:
I heard the NPR program. Very interesting. I wonder how thsoe Glenn Beck genes sneaked in?
Everyone born was the fastest swimmer to the egg. I believe each of us is born brilliant & generous however some of us get a chance to grow, others get stunted, some recover some don't. Another way to see it is the parable about seeds soil & rock.
http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/pbl5.html
With Childhood Development as furrows and Adulthood as crop my harvest is thin
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