Wonder Stuff

12 Hopes for 2012

1. Do something really nice – that no one knows about.

2. Spend more money on other people than I spend on my self. Love my neighbor as I love myself. And love myself as I love my neighbor.

3. Laugh often… especially at advertisements that try to convince me that I must buy more stuff in order to be happy.

4. Learn a new life skill – like carpentry, pottery, or canning vegetables. Teach someone else I life skill I know how to do.

5. Love a few people well, remembering that what is important is not how much we do but how much love we put into doing it.

6. Write a letter to someone I need to say thank you to. Write another letter to someone I need to ask to forgive me.

7. Track down a critic or someone I disagree with and take them to lunch. Listen to them.

8. Compliment someone I have a hard time complimenting… and mean it.

9. Choose life. Do something regularly to interrupt the patterns of injustice – do something to end violence, bullying, war, capital punishment and other mean and ugly things.

10. Pause before every crisis and ask “will this matter in 5 years?”

11. Get outside often and marvel at things like fireflies and shooting stars. And regularly get my hands into the garden… so when I type on the computer I can see dirt under my fingernails.

12. Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

(Source: azspot)

Seismologists Confirm That Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquakes

letterstomycountry:

How now, fracking cow?

You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into

No matter what year you were born, by the time you finish(ed) high school, its (was) a completely different world. Today’s high school seniors were born prior to the World Wide Web, wireless internet, smartphones,tablets, HDTVs and changes in world politics that were never imagined. Without question each of us can remember the things that were new and exciting to us when we were kids, that were unimaginable to our parents, but are now nothing more than old memories.

The rate of technological change is not slowing down. In fact, the argument could be made that it is speeding up. In our lifetimes, we will reach a point when we reflect back on the good old days of the internet, Facebook, Twitter and other tech that is ubiquitous today. We might even look back at digital the way we currently look at analog. Things change.

Of course, this isn’t a problem. It’s a huge opportunity. There is that 12 year old that is imagining what we can’t. Another that is combining elements into something new we should have seen, but did not. It reminds me of one of my favorite sayings. “If you are looking where everyone else is for the next big thing, you are looking in the wrong place”

The reality is, None of us are born in to the world we live in

Some people might argue I don’t live in the world I am actually existing in today. Basically I don’t have the money for it, but since I have never lived in it I don’t really miss it at all.

(Source: azspot, via randomactsofchaos)