I am not great about following other blogs carefully. I’ll visit one for a while, then forget for a week or month or two, then catch up. So, while I read quite a few blogs, I don’t read all of them every day. (Can you hear the defensive tone? That’s right… I don’t spend all day every day reading things on the computer just for fun. I actually do stuff, too.)
Here are some of the best things I’ve read recently…
From Momastery: A Mountain I’m Willing to Die On
Children are not cruel. Children are mirrors. They want to be “grown-up.” So they act how grown-ups act when we think they’re not looking. They do not act how we tell them to act at school assemblies. They act how we really act. They believe what we believe. They say what we say. And we have taught them that gay people are not okay. That overweight people are not okay. That Muslim people are not okay. That they are not equal. That they are to be feared. And people hurt the things they fear. We know that. What they are doing in the schools, what we are doing in the media – it’s all the same. The only difference is that children bully in the hallways and the cafeterias while we bully from behind pulpits and legislative benches and one liners on sit-coms.
Diana Nyad talks at TedMed about how extreme goals can release you from living with regrets large and small.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?” –Mary Oliver
Don’t Carpe Diem has been making the rounds, and makes me want to wave my fist in the air and yell “Yessssss!!!!!”
When I started this post, there were a couple other things I thought I had seen. Maybe I did, but I can’t find them now. Oh well. Maybe that means there will have to be another post like this sometime.
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