Civic Responsibility

Crowdsourcing Democracy: Part 4-A ~ Fight like a Girl!

March 29, 2018

Part 4-A ~ Tiny URL ~ https://tinyurl.com/yavpv4ku What can we do? Where do we start? When I started this post, I already had a longish list of ideas that I started working on last summer. But in today’s bizarre political world, that was eons ago. Every day it gets more obvious that Americans no longer can depend solely […]

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Civil Discourse & the Golden Rule following the 2016 Election ~ Saying “nice” is playing nice

February 18, 2018

Originally posted Nov 25, 2016 ~ a 20-minute read ^O^ Lightly updated February 18th, 2018, four days after the latest school shooting in Parkland, Fla This was the first essay written by me in the weeks following the 2016 election.     Civility, that is, playing ‘nice’, is both the ethical choice and smart politics in the aftermath […]

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Index with Links to all ‘2nd American Revolution’ series of essays

February 3, 2018

Originally posted in 2018, but even more relevant today!   For future reference or to share, the TinyURL for this “Index Page” is https://tinyurl.com/ydf2azq3   Editor’s Prologue, 2018:  As a country, we are at a crossroads — either pull together or sit by as our country sinks into a new Dark Ages. Since I’m not […]

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Emigration Declaration Project ~ tracing the story of our personal emigration history back 10 generations

January 19, 2018

https://tinyurl.com/yaattwub Stand-alone essay from the series: “The Second American Revolution {of the Mind} Crowd-sourcing our Democracy ~ simple ways to overcome a historic flaw in our US Constitutional Part III – ‘We The People’: What Now, and How Emigration Declaration: Shinning a light on our common roots Its only fair to start with the obvious — […]

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We are a young species ~ Re-post of excerpt from Daniel Wahl’s new book: Redesigning Regenerative Cultures

January 15, 2018

Daniel Christian Wahl global educator, activist, and consultant in whole systems design and transformative innovation for regenerative cultures  by line ~ Jan 13, 2018 [We are] a young species growing up A new cultural narrative is emerging — one that unites humanity in our interdependence with the wider community of life. This new and ancient story of interbeing […]

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The 2nd American Revolution: Chapter 3 ~ History of our Democracy started w/ English Magna Carta

December 14, 2017

Linked Index to all “Second Revolution” posts and stand-alone essays in this series Back to the Future: 1215 Magna Carta ~ symbol of universal freedom, progenitor of the British representative government, our own Independence & the US Constitution  Part One ~ Chapter 3 Our Founding Fathers correctly defined factions as dangerous to democracy, as history repeatedly proved. But […]

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