Posts Tagged ‘history’
9 Things. The Lower Ninth Ward. 9 Years Later
I was admiring the cushiness of my cool bicycle seat in the humid New Orleans sun, when our guide asked if anyone had suggested that we wear bulletproof vests along with our bike helmets.
“No,” I said. “I guess we’re brave…or stupid. We didn’t really ask anyone their opinion before the ride.”
“I was told not to go into the Lower Ninth Ward,” our Welch bike-mate, Aron, confessed.
Vacations can be curiosity quests that provide powerful insights when we ignite the right type of courage and adventure. Although curiosity quests can take us places that others deem strange or dangerous, novelty that inspires powerful insights can be found
Read MoreWorld History Starts Here
Imagine you have a pushpin. It is sharp and magical. Imagine you can count on your memory of yesterday being the one true memory. Extend your crystal clear memory all the way back to the beginning of time so that your scroll of history is the one true and accurate depiction. Now call up the magic of your pushpin and succinctly prink the moment in history from which you want all land ownership to be determined. Start there.
That pushpin gave you a lot of power. Beware of
Read MoreBeing Wrong About the Right Side of History
On the eve of what I hope will eventually be a distant and proud memory of Oregon joining company with many other states on the right side of history, I have been thinking a lot about the what it takes to change one’s mind—what it takes to change a nation’s collective mind.
I must now admit that, although I embraced marriage equality early on, it wasn’t always the case for me. I remember the moment my mind was changed.
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