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<p>Thanks for the kind words. <br>
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<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/11/2018 11:09 AM, Phil Shapiro
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<div>Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are
some of the wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom. </div>
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<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/"
moz-do-not-send="true">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>
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<div><a href="https://twitter.com/edgarcahn"
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<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>
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<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>
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<div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"thenderson"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com"><thenderson@extremelabs.com></a><br>
<b>To: </b>"ipg-smz" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Ipg-smz] 9/11<br>
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<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>
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-- <br>
Tom Henderson<br>
ExtremeLabs, Inc.<br>
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Skype: extremelabsinc<br>
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>
"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br>
<div><span>"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that
we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br>
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ExtremeLabs, Inc.
+1 317 250 4646
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