Within Me

RIC_1095, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I can't understand where I'm going

if I don't understand where I've been. 

The answers are within me.

Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

Translation

RIC_1138, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Remember that writing is translation and 

the opus to be translated is yourself. 

E. B. White

Seeing

RIC_1119, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way. 

John Seely Brown, Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

RIC_1127, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Creator God,
We give you thanks for all creation –
         The planets, the cosmos, the waters, the land, the air, the plants, the trees,
         The four legged, the two legged, the wing-ed,
We give thanks for creation made whole and good and wise.

We give thanks that you speak to us
         In ways we can hear in our hearts.
We give you thanks that you hear us
         In ways we can be heard in truth.
We give thanks that you lead us
         In ways we can lead others in humility.
We give you thanks that you love us
         In ways we can love ourselves and others with courage.
And we give thanks that you gather us in community
         In ways we can live lives of justice, kindness, and humility.
Miigwech. Nya:weh
Amen.

Kim Uyede-Kai, Prayer offered at Francis Sandy Theological School Annual Celebration and Graduation (June 17, 2011)

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Wisdom

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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Chinese proverb

Questions

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Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock

Anthropology

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The key revelation of anthropology is the idea that distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself, morally inspired and inherently right. ... To dismiss indigenous peoples as trivial, to view their societies as marginal, is to ignore and deny the central revelation of anthropology.

Wade Davis, Light at the Edge of the World