When Poetry Says It All

Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.

Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29

Link Loving 18.11.12

• Lead with your heart. Naomi Eisenberger and George Kohlrieser.
• The pattern behind self-deception. Michael Shermer.
• Competitiveness and carbon – is it time to engage with trade policy? Matthew Lockwood.
• Meet the UKYCC youth delegation to the next round of UN climate talks.
• Our story in one minute.

Africa For Norway

Hilarious : )

Link Loving 16.11.12

• Rolling Jubilee highlights the need for conversations on debt cancellation. Stephen Reid.
• To BP or not to BP? That is the question. RSC stops taking BP’s money!
• Live-stream kittens.
• G0 Fossil Free – a great toolkit for those working on fossil fuel divestment campaigns from 350.org.
• Thoughts on the Future of Education. C. G. P. Grey.

Want To Start Your Own Econ Study Group?

Now you can with Econo…What?

From the organisers –

This new site has all the resources you need to take part in a ten part reading group which will help you get to grips with the basics of the financial crisis. Everything there is suitable for people with no prior knowledge of economics, but there’s plenty to think about for those who already know a bit. Most of the resources below are available online – just click the titles to bring them up. We’ve also added an estimated time needed to read or watch each item.

Big props to Adam and the whole team who have put this together. Great stuff.

Link Loving 14.11.12

• The promise of biomimicry. Janine Benyus.
• How to be an awesome uncle. Brett McKay.
• Does the U.S. deserve its new seat on the Human Rights Council? Colum Lynch.
• Occupy Sandy, from relief to resistance. Yotam Marom.

Link Loving 13.11.12

• XKDC’s explanation of American politics.

Coming Out: From Powerlessness To Self-Liberation

While reading for my Marshall Ganz class on narrative, I came across this gem of framing.

The coming out process for LGBT people is moving from “powerlessness and passivity to insight, enlightenment and self-liberation”. Amen.

Francesca Polletta, It Was Like A Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics, p116

Link Loving 12.11.12

• Sex, death and the meaning of life episode. Richard Dawkins.
• Ok, this video is pretty awful – but I do like the story of starting with a vacuum cleaner and ending with a sharing economy. Erik Assadourian.
• ‘Shadow councils’ give voice to Palestinian youth. Andrew Beale.

Link Loving 11.11.12

• Is America ready for a white, male Secretary of State? Erin Gloria Ryan.
• Philip Pullman reimagines the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Maria Popova.
• After arrest for political action, should we stop paying bail? Five reasons to go to jail like you mean it. Nadine Bloch.
• Moving from persuading others to creating resonance. Gibrán Rivera.