SLW! eNews #35 – Seattle Recharge
Posted on: August 5, 2014
Just back from ten days on the road to Seattle and back.
*PHOTO: Visiting Alpacas at Lone Ranch, near Medford, OR (from left) Grandniece Meya Hedrick, Gerald, Kimaree and Rita
As well as meeting Glen Gersmehl, Exec. Dir. of Lutheran Peace Fellowship, in Seattle, Rita and I were interviewed briefly by Christine Sine for her Godspace blog.
I interviewed Tom and Christine Sine and plan to issue that as a SLW! podcast in Sept. I’ll publish the notes I took of our group discussion (Post #293) at Mustard Seed Associates as a blog soon, as I did with the notes from my speaking tours through 40+ states (including my first visit to MSA, post #168).
Tom is the author of the best-seller Mustard Seed Conspiracy. He gave me a copy of his recent The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time. +Tom’s blog. He also wrote a series of Advent/Christmas reflections for Alternatives. Christine wrote The Search for Meaning: Beyond a Commercialized World (available in text or podcast).
Also on this trip I reconnected with one of my influential college instructors, Gerald Stolp, in Eugene, OR; we met several interesting couples through our home-stay clubs; and we taxied my grandniece Meya to visit her grandmother (my eldest sister) in Auburn, Calif.
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What’s NOW with SLW
- Hiroshima Day – 8/6: Remembering the past for the sake of peace; Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes; Middlebury, Indiana, to Hiroshima, Japan; Remembering and hoping. ART = Spirit of Simplicity: 4-A548 – How to Fold a Paper Peace Crane; 4-A3505 – August 6, 1945 — When the clocks stopped – Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Thank the Rich
- The Second Half of Tony and Shane Uncut has begun — Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne’s complete dialog on simpler living and global justice, in eight parts. To LISTEN, click the player at the top or the bottom of the Show Notes, or visit the Episode Index. NOTE: You can listen to each episode as it is released the 1st and 15th of the month, May-Aug. Or listen to several or all episodes at Preview/Back-up. The topics are different for each episode.
- Jerry’s Excellent Adventure in Social Media complete. READ MORE
- The response to my blog “Why Are Danes So Happy?” has been AMAZING. Thank you! The responses to my blogs and podcasts are collected HERE.
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – August
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth Earth – May-Aug.
- Worship Alternatives: Pentecost/Ordinary Time
- Spirit of Simplicity: ART | QUOTES
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations | Spanish: 10 puntas
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index
What’s Coming
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Tony and Shane Uncut Finale — Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne’s complete dialog on simpler living and global justice, in eight parts.
What’s Happened
- July 11 – World Population Day
- Alternative Pentecost & Ordinary Time
- The Common Good Podcast Episode 49 :: Geoscientist Jeff Severinghaus: How 800,000 Year Old Antarctica Ice Confirms Earth’s Changing Climate & How to Respond
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast Episode 50 :: Colin Richard on Permaculture
- Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability – New Course from Northwest Earth Institute
- Interviews, Book Groups, etc. – Spreading the Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show
- Spring of Sustainability: Turning Crises into Creative Solutions [Since this series is over, you can only access it by subscribing. Or hear two free samples. // Summer of Peace: Transforming Conflict in Your Heart, Your Relationships and the World, a free online event, June 13-September 21, both series from The Shift Network and Sustainable World Coalition
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