Posted on July 19, 2010 by zoeweil
I recently read an article from The Atlantic Monthly online titled “Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber.” The author, Alston Chase, has corresponded with Ted Kaczynski at length and also wrote the book A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism. I first came across Alston Chase’s [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2010 by zoeweil
My good friend and colleague, Mary Pat Champeau, once offered me some words of wisdom, ones that helped her to maintain integrity, equanimity, and calm no matter what the situation. She said, “I try not to let anyone else determine how I will act.” This has been one of the most important pieces of advice [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2010 by zoeweil
Just days after delivering the sermon, A Better World, A Meaningful Life, at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, which included a discussion about a shocking example of the “bystander effect,” Hugo Tale-Yax died after being stabbed while coming to the aid of a threatened woman on the street in Queens, New York. He died [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2010 by zoeweil
Give yourself & your soul a boost! IHE President, Zoe Weil, has a guest post on the blog CrazySexyLife: “Action is the Antidote to Despair.” Here’s an excerpt: “There are myriad systems that need transformation: food production, electronics production, energy, schooling, conflict resolution (can’t we come up with an alternative to war?!), architecture, suburban sprawl, [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2010 by zoeweil
I recently had the great honor and joy of being the first Morton Series Lecturer on individual responsibility at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee (FUSM), and below you’ll find a copy of what I shared at the services on April 25. Last week I read Erik Reece’s essay, “In the Presence of Rock and [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2010 by zoeweil
I just finished Erik Reece’s essay, “In the Presence of Rock and Sky” in the April issue of The Sun magazine. Reece is a writer and environmental advocate who has written about strip mining in the Appalachians, and in this essay he shares his experience of climbing Mount Fanaraken in Norway, the country of his [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2010 by zoeweil
Among some environmentalists, there is a strong anti-civilization movement and the belief that the only hope for a sustainable world entails a return to a veritable Stone Age, a time when humans had neither the capacity, the desire, nor the wherewithal to create havoc within ecosystems, cause the extinction of myriad species, and utterly despoil [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2010 by zoeweil
Here’s another excerpt from my book, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, that I wanted to share with you. “Some may be pessimistic that MOGO (most good) living can truly change intractable problems and create a peaceful, humane, and healthy world. Yet the MOGO principle is not [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by zoeweil
In 2010 I’m going to endeavor to stop complaining. This shouldn’t be too hard, as I am profoundly blessed and privileged. I have all my needs met and so much more. I have a happy 20-year marriage and a healthy, bright, generous son. I share my warm, spacious home with three great dogs and a [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by zoeweil
I was reading an excellent essay by Eknath Easwaran in the Blue Mountain Journal, titled “Will and Desire.” He begins: “Desire is the key to life, because desire is power. The deeper the desire, the more power it contains. The Upanishads say: You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your deep, driving desire [...]
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