Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Ani Difranco - Paradigm
i've been thinking about mothering, and memory, and trying to raise
a righteous kid. this song seemed appropriate. here are the lyrics.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
my latest letter to the editor
My latest letter to the editor was published today in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In response to this article, here's what I wrote:
Re: "Man, 18, charged in waitress' slaying," Thursday:
Sabina Rose O'Donnell's recent rape and murder is a tragedy. I am dismayed that the Philadelphia police and you are framing this crime as a robbery that escalated. The suspect was clearly physically stronger than O'Donnell, so why didn't he just take her bike and leave? Instead, he dragged O'Donnell behind a building, ripped off her clothes, raped her, and strangled her. He then left her bike behind the building in order to try breaking into other apartments in her building.
Our society teaches young people the way to get what you want and feel powerful is through violence (including sexual violence). We preach the gospel of power over instead of power with. This plays out in our intimate relationships (a fourth of U.S. women are victims of intimate partner violence), our communities, (O'Donnell's death), and our world.
Susanna Gilbertson
Philadelphia
In response to this article, here's what I wrote:
Re: "Man, 18, charged in waitress' slaying," Thursday:
Sabina Rose O'Donnell's recent rape and murder is a tragedy. I am dismayed that the Philadelphia police and you are framing this crime as a robbery that escalated. The suspect was clearly physically stronger than O'Donnell, so why didn't he just take her bike and leave? Instead, he dragged O'Donnell behind a building, ripped off her clothes, raped her, and strangled her. He then left her bike behind the building in order to try breaking into other apartments in her building.
Our society teaches young people the way to get what you want and feel powerful is through violence (including sexual violence). We preach the gospel of power over instead of power with. This plays out in our intimate relationships (a fourth of U.S. women are victims of intimate partner violence), our communities, (O'Donnell's death), and our world.
Susanna Gilbertson
Philadelphia
Here's the link to the web page - mine is the second letter on the page.
Monday, May 3, 2010
gratitude and thanksgiving
Notwithstanding those outcries for help and hope that are wrung from us in [difficult] times, our first priority for developing a spiritual practice is the cultivation of a sense of gratitude and thanksgiving...Make a ritual of pausing frequently to appreciate and be thankful. Bless the food that nourishes you. Bless whoever loves you in any way. Bless the gifts and talents that call you to create. Bless the colors, one by one -- the primal blue, green, yellow, red, and all pastels and mottled mauves. Bless old friends. Bless little children and ancient parents. Bless...all the unguents of pleasure. Bless, especially Bach and whoever causes your ass and heart to move in rhythm. Bless those books that have blessed you. Bless sleep and waking.
Notice the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are the victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego -- your need to possess and control -- and transform you into a generous being.
Sam Keen, Hymns to an Unknown God
Notice the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are the victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego -- your need to possess and control -- and transform you into a generous being.
Sam Keen, Hymns to an Unknown God
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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