[Ipg-smz] 9/11

[Tom Henderson]

Thanks for the kind words.

Tom


On 09/11/2018 11:09 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote:
>
> 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/     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
>
>    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.
>
>
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> *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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> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from 
> real options."  David Suzuki
>
>

-- 
Tom Henderson
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