UPDATE Mar 2, 2014: Video of all speeches referred to below should be accessible here. Noon today is the first day of Spring in Minnesota. It’s been a long enough winter here. It’s been about two weeks since the 26th Nobel Peace Prize Forum, convened at Augsburg College. “Crossing Boundaries to Create Common Ground” was […]
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. In a sense, everybody is Irish on this day (or the weekend preceding or following), for assorted reasons. Yesterday at Church was the annual moving rendition of “Danny Boy”. Here’s a recent version from New York City I saw on YouTube: “Danny Boy”. I don’t have a lick of Irish […]
(click to enlarge) Sometimes fragments of life intersect for all of us, and are an opportunity to relearn, or learn for the first time. Here’s a personal example. Perhaps you might think of one or more of your own…. This post begins with an e-mail ‘thread’ a week ago today, about something called the Charter […]
Happy birthday, Flo! Brother Frank, on deck for this age, with one to go – John – sent a short e-mail: “boy, we sure are getting old!”. But Flo will probably be happy to see this post. At least her brother, me, remembered. This year I don’t need to be reminded a few days later…if […]
Anne, who has contributed her own writings to this blog several times, comments here on an important issue: My mother told me a story (not a dream) about an elder who traveled through time. He could go forward or backward. He did this while in a deep sleep. He was probably comatose because he would […]
Dates for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Forum: March 6-8, 2015 Posts for previous days accessible here. Today’s short and final session of the 2014 Forum was very interesting, beginning with a debate about the success or failure of the 113-year Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and ending with a very stimulating talk by 2011 Nobel […]
Days One and Two: here. Sunday, March 9, program noon to 5 p.m. here. UPDATE: All live stream talks at this years Forum “by Nobel Peace Prize Forum” are archived and immediately accessible in their entirety via google plus on YouTube here. By my count there are 13 talks on video thus far, and there […]
PRE-NOTE: The Nobel Peace Prize Forum continues Saturday and Sunday March 8 and 9. Details here. I highly recommend the Forum, an annual tradition at Augsburg College. My thoughts on Day One (Dalai Lama) here. Prime takeaway: Peace is a process, one person, one action at a time, which has immense cumulative effects. The guests […]
One week from today, Wednesday, March 12, a fundraiser to celebrate the power of immigrant stories will be held at Target Field, Minneapolis. You are encouraged to attend, and make others aware of this important event as well. All details, including bios of the speakers, are here. Your RSVP is requested. Ours is a nation […]
This morning, while waiting for my car to be serviced, I noted the Business Section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Leafing through it I came across an article by Chuck Slocum, about two personages involved in Public Education policy in Minnesota in the early 1980s. The article is headlined: Minnesota Education Duo: 3M CEO Lew […]