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Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas https://www.amazon.com/dp/087486917X/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_jE67DbRAZ4TKX

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The Declaration of Interdependence And Jefferson's 'Brilliant Statement Of Intergenerational Equity Principles' | ThinkProgress

This is slightly dated, but I just ran across it. It's got me thinking a little deeper.

The Declaration of Interdependence And Jefferson's 'Brilliant Statement Of Intergenerational Equity Principles' | ThinkProgress

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Repairing the Surgery Deficit - NYTimes.com

It is conservatively estimated that 56 million people in sub-Saharan Africa — over twice the number living with H.I.V./AIDS — need a surgery today.  

Wendell Berry, American Hero

Wendell Berry, American Hero - NYTimes.com

Quote Of The Day

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/19/banking_and_morality.html

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This is very cool.

Helping dads smile when they think of the future | Heroic Fatherhood Development

Necessary Endings, by Henry Cloud

Book Notes by David Mays

Not easy, but important!

The Wisdom Of Steve Jobs

What is focusing your life?

 

 

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The Wisdom Of Steve Jobs

via NPR Blogs: Planet Money on 10/6/11

by Jacob Goldstein

L.A. Cicero/Courtesy Stanford News Service

Stanford, 2005

Steve Jobs died yesterday. He reflected on mortality in a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford:

 

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.

...Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. ...

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Here's the full text of the speech. Here's a video. Here's more on Jobs from NPR's Laura Sydell, the WSJ's Walt Mossberg, and Slate's Farhad Manjoo.

Full disclosure: I played Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe in elementary school; fell in love with fonts on an early Macintosh in high school; danced to an iPod playlist at my wedding; and read about Steve Jobs on my iPhone on the subway this morning.

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Robert Reich: "The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/01/robert-reich/robert-reich-says-ratio-corporate-profits-wages-hi/

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We thank God for the life, service and friendship of Illiya Ibrahim.

We grieve his passing this week.

NYTimes: The Bilingual Advantage

From The New York Times:

The Bilingual Advantage

Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease symptoms.

http://nyti.ms/jjxeRs

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Fasting, a story by Timothy Seitz-Brown | Jesus Creed

Fasting, a story by Timothy Seitz-Brown | Jesus Creed

The World According to USAID

The World According to USAID

Watch where USAID funds have been going for the past 25 years.

Is Your Life Confusing?

http://donmilleris.com/2011/03/18/is-your-life-confusing/

I love the new ideas I get when I read Donald Miller. This is a gem.

What's Really Causing the Budget Deficit?

http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/2011/03/whats_really_causing_the_budge.html

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Taxes: The Long View

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/03/17/134628812/taxes-the-long-view?ft=1&f=93559255

Relative U.S. Income Tax Burden 1913 - 2011

Are we all carrying our fair share? Are we better off or worse than we used to be?

Defending the Global Common Good

http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/2011/02/defending_the_global_common_go.html

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Michael Lewis, Financial Disaster Travel Journalist

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/11/133687935/the-friday-podcast-michael-lewis-financial-disaster-travel-journalist?ft=1&f=93559255

Michael Lewis is a terrific writer

Tea with Hezbollah | Books and Culture

I want to be like Carl when I grow up.

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