<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are some of the wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Thinking about actions each one of us can take -- one small way I'm involved in rebuilding community is via the Timebanking movement. In case you might not be familiar - Timebanks are a method for community members to work for each other -- to pull for each other. </div><div>Further info is at <a href="https://timebanks.org/">https://timebanks.org/</a> I'm proud to say I'm friends with the founder of this movement, Edgar Cahn,</div><div>former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, among other things.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/edgarcahn">https://twitter.com/edgarcahn</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> And the past few days I've also been refurbishing a lovely HP laptop for one of the custodians in the building where I work.</div><div>He has two daughters, 9 and 16. His former Windows XP laptop is being reborn as a Linux Mint laptop -- and ought to serve this</div><div>family for several years. His daughters might not have a MacBook Air to use -- but they're going to have a very fine laptop in their</div><div>hands quite soon. It's not me providing them with this gift -- it's the worldwide open source community, of which I play one small part.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> I was living and working in Arlington, Virginia, on 9/11. I remember the acrid odor of smoke from the Pentagon, two miles from where</div><div>I was living. A better world is within reach, but each one of us must resolve to do their part.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"thenderson" <thenderson@extremelabs.com><br><b>To: </b>"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Ipg-smz] 9/11<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Fellow Guilders,<br><br>It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of the <br>madness we face even to this day.<br><br>We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and the <br>crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted. Lives <br>disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the hundreds of <br>thousands now buried across the Middle East.<br><br>My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively, and not <br>for long.<br><br>Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal <br>privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.<br><br>Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending, bombarding <br>each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.<br><br>At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal concerted <br>efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of <br>vituperative epithet.<br><br>It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we look at <br>the healed scar tissue.<br><br>Peace,<br><br>Tom<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Tom Henderson<br>ExtremeLabs, Inc.<br>+1 317 250 4646<br>Twitter: @extremelabs<br>Skype: extremelabsinc<br><br><br>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br>Ipg-smz@netpress.org<br>http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div>--<br>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div></body></html>