Do it. Do good this weekend.
Chinese Proverb: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
As Earth Month heads toward its inevitable conclusion, there’s one more weekend to do good this month.
But of course just because Earth Month is over doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep on doing good.
This weekend there are a few events on Saturday I want to call your attention to and a fundraiser on Sunday. Read more…
Ventura College celebrates Earth Day today from 10-1pm with succulent planting and other activities to make the world better in an event organized by Associated Students at Ventura College. This evening from 630-830pm is the Ventura College Climate Action Summit. Scroll down for details as well as directions on how to make this Earth sugar cookies! Read more…
Earth Day: Stand For What You Stand On
What’s the opposite of a gun?
On Friday April 20, students across the United States will answer that question with a resounding answer:
a walkout.
Earth Month, Earth Week, Earth Day 2018 and VOTE!
How has your Earth Month been so far?
While the Earth is celebrated all April and while #EarthDayIsEveryDay, this week is considered Earth Week and Sunday April 22 is the official “Earth Day.” Read more…
When are TAXES due in 2018?
Usually it’s pretty easy for you and for Hagar to figure out when taxes are due.
But this year it’s quite complicated! Read more…
Get yr grammar on: World Semicolon Day
Word Crimes: We all commit them. Srsly, theyre part of the rising process, write?!
When we are rushing to get the words out, to go with the flow, to stay with our wild minds, to get our down draft down, we need to follow the rules of writing practice as set out by Natalie Goldberg and not worry about spelling, punctuation, or grammar. But then there comes the time to revise those down drafts, and to fix them up, as Anne Lamott describes in her chapter on “Shitty First Drafts” in Bird By Bird.
So to help you get your grammar on, I have two videos, and a very important public service announcement.
Burning Man at VC’s Diversity in Culture
As I scanned my mental files for folks who would add something amazing to Ventura College’s Diversity in Culture Festival April 11 and 12, in addition to Alice Bag, it should be no surprise that I’d think of women who go to Burning Man like:
- Rasika Mathur, actor
- Deniz Nicole, artist
- Lynne Okun, artist
I know how attending Burning Man affected me as an artist and writer and so I asked them via email a series of questions about how attending Burning Man influenced them as artists. Here are their answers. Read more…
“You don’t have to be anything,” reminds Tsoknyi Rinpoche. “You don’t have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and soul.”
How can we do this? How can we be who we are, a shining example? And can that bring more social and environmental justice to the world?
To increase justice in the world, Judy Lee Dunn suggests we practice the “3Es”: Empathy, Education, Empowerment:
Empathy is the ability to walk in the shoes of another: without empathy, we don’t know what injustice feels like and we don’t care about the injustice in the world.
Once we care, we want to learn more through Education about injustice so we understand it — the causes, the solutions and the actions people take.
Education leads to Empowerment — taking action. If we only learn about problems, and don’t see how we can be part of the solution, we feel helpless. Taking action leads to a sense of empowerment.
Empathy. Education. Empowerment. I wrote about this a few years ago but it bears repeating.
One way to to become empathetic and to educate yourself and empower yourself is by attending events like Ventura College’s Diversity in Culture Festival and Earth Day events going on all over the world this month.
So yesterday some of you got lucky and got tickets to Burning Man before they sold out almost immediately and you’re excitedly making plans to head out to the Black Rock Desert, Nevada over Labor Day weekend Read more…
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