[Ipg-smz] 9/11
Phil Shapiro
pshapiro at his.com
Tue Sep 11 15:09:53 UTC 2018
Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are some of the wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom.
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.
Further info is at [ https://timebanks.org/ | https://timebanks.org/ ] I'm proud to say I'm friends with the founder of this movement, Edgar Cahn,
former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, among other things.
[ https://twitter.com/edgarcahn | https://twitter.com/edgarcahn ]
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.
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
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
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.
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
I was living. A better world is within reach, but each one of us must resolve to do their part.
From: "thenderson" <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
To: "ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM
Subject: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
Fellow Guilders,
It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of the
madness we face even to this day.
We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and the
crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted. Lives
disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the hundreds of
thousands now buried across the Middle East.
My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively, and not
for long.
Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal
privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.
Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending, bombarding
each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.
At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal concerted
efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of
vituperative epithet.
It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we look at
the healed scar tissue.
Peace,
Tom
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