To Humanists in Red States
What's happening in your area that you don't want to miss? I bet your local radio station knows!
What's happening in your area that you don't want to miss? I bet your local radio station knows!
Category: Learning Resiliency
Bext Holidays Ever
A typo. Decided it could function as an (sortof, not quite) anagram.
Hang on. I’m gonna ask ChatGPT.
Bext is a portmanteau of next and best. (Not an anagram.) This is the bext christmas that I can remember. It’s perfect for my present circumstances, and is meaningful like some of my other favorite christmasses.
Misunderstanding and Meaningful Communication
Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.
Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.
Defund logging by DCR in Massachusetts
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Time Perspective and The Ancestors
Including the psychological past of surviving adverse conditions for thousands of years and having a meaningful and inspiring goal for the future.
Including the psychological past of surviving adverse conditions for thousands of years and having a meaningful and inspiring goal for the future.
I’m always talking to someone, even though I’m alone
Recently I realized (not for the first time) that my emotional state can be more easily agitated when there is no interlocutor.
Recently I realized (not for the first time) that my emotional state can be more easily agitated when there is no interlocutor.
Over 1000 acres of Massachusetts’ Forest to be cut by DCR in 2020
The Department of Conservation and Recreation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is once again planning several cutting projects. Although the process allows for “public comment,” this is just going-through-the-motions. Based on past history, DCR has no intention of allowing public or scientific feedback to influence their plan. Take, for instance, the Wendell State Forest, where DCR allowed a private … Read more...
Open Letter on Proforestation, to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
To: Secretary Kathleen A. Theoharides, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; Claire Miziolek, Decarbonization Roadmap Manager; Hong-Hanh Chu, GWSA Program Manager; Benjamin Miller, Decarbonization Roadmap Technical Lead; and staff of the relevant agencies
CC: Representative Susannah Whipps; Representative William Pignatelli; Representative Denise Provost; Senator Ann Gobi; Senator Karen Spilka; Senator Jo Comerford; Representative Mindy Domb; Jim Montgomery, Department … Read more...
Whiteness and White Fragility: Can We Be Real?
We’re fresh off the first of a two-part training on Responsible Whiteness.
The goal of “Responsible Whiteness” is to enlarge your perspective on whatever racial dynamics you’re involved in or worried about so that you can access and practice new ways of moving so that the same old problems … Read more...
RID Denies Members Opportunity to Vote on Motion
If you have an immediate negative reaction to the idea of unionizing sign language interpreters, then I would like to ask you—politely, please—to pause for a moment and recognize bias.
Most of us have no idea what it could mean to become a Union. In fact, I am still learning. I’m eager to find up to a dozen … Read more...