oh wow, what to leave out this week… there has been a lot of goodness and just importance flying around the internet… i don’t expect you to read all these things but at the very least, please scroll down and pick one thing you missed and then if you enjoy it please SHARE it with your social media people – some important stuff to get eyes on this week:
MOST INSPIRING:
Abundance > Scarcity: As the procession towards Christmas picks up pace, our good friends @4CommonChange have launched The Generosity Project which calls for 25 days of generosity. With daily articles and creative ideas on how that might look for you and your family over the next couple of weeks.
#generousliving #generosityproject #GiveMoreSpendLess
MOST INSTRUCTIVE:
Before you disagree [on matters of race etc]:Some thoughts i had after engaging with Austin Channing [black woman in Americaland whose writing i really appreciate] on a topic we disagreed on, focusing on listening and trying to hear rather than simply making my point.
MOST IMPORTANT:
An open letter to my White Friends, in South Africa and Americaland: There are people saying a lot of these things much better than me, but this conversation i feel is SO VITAL and NECESSARY and the time for white people to be uninterested, disengaged or apathetic should be long gone.
MOST SCATHING
The Big Read: 16 Days Dead on Arrival: Tom Eaton’s piece that he wrote for the Times takes a look at the “16 Days of Activism Against Women and Child Abuse” campaign and reveals where he thinks the organisers ma have missed the point.
MOST PRACTICAL
12 Things White People Can Do Now Because Ferguson: This piece i found really helpful as a white person wanting to know how i can be a white ally with regards to the situation in Americaland in terms of racial tension and inequality.
MOST CHALLENGING AND PRACTICAL HELPFUL FOR PARENTS
Are we Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids: Despite not being a biological parent, i have a lot of time and respect and love for those who are and so articles like this catch my attention and for some of you this will be an important and helpful post [not by me].
MOST UNLIKELY TO BE UNSEEN
This playful video of me and tbV wishing you the most merriest of Christm-asses will stay firmly lodged in your brain in the very best of ways.
MOST TRUTHFUL
Not a big fan of statistics myself, but this graph don’t lie:
FROM THE TWITTERER:
‘Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.’ [Elie Wiesel]
‘Two ears. Two eyes. One mouth. [Use them in that order]’
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” [June Jordan 1970s Poem for South African Women]
Chanting “All Lives Matter” or tweeting it erases the reality that Black ppl die in greater numbers than other races. #BlackLivesMatter [@grimalkinrn]
Justice won’t be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. BE OUTRAGED #ICantBreathe [@peaceforus4ever]
Also i have been investing in a little bit of Hashtag game distraction amidst all the overbearingly serious:
#FightingMovies Brawl the Presidents Men
#FightingMovies Scratch Me If You Can
#MathematicsAMovie American History Solve for X
#DogFilms Sniffing Ryan’s Privates
What about you? What blog posts or articles caught your eye this week? What has been making you think or laugh or be challenged or go, ‘Wo!’? What have you written on your blog that is worth taking a look at?
Leave us a link in the comments for our weekend reading…
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