I had a humbling experience a couple of weeks ago. Well, at the time it wasn’t humbling. It was infuriating. As I started to look at what happened, though, it became humbling: I had fallen into “old patterns” again. The …
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As soon as I rediscover the Feminist Philosophers’ blog, a post on The Ethics of Public Shaming gets my thinking juices flowing. Having written my thesis on shame, I figured I might have something to add to the discussion. Little …
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When you walk around with those bags filled with designer clothes you don’t really need do you not see that man sleeping in the doorway? When you drive to buy a bargain halfway across town don’t you realize what it …
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I’ve made a big fuss about leaving Facebook both here and on Facebook itself in part because i wanted other people’s inputs. Most of that was “oh, i’ll miss you,” or some variation thereof, which wasn’t particularly helpful, especially since …
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A friend of mine pointed me to a beautiful musical collaboration between David Broza, an Israeli musician, and Wisam Murad, a Palestinian musician. Somehow this song tugged at my heart deeply. I am guessing that it tapped into my despair …
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After ranting about the blindness within self-help modalities to the systemic issues, i started reading an article about Naomi Klein. As i was reading the article, i could hear the voices starting, actually continuing, to tear me down: Well, she …
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