Connecting the Dots: An Essay Series
I write occasional essays for The Centre Daily Times under the moniker (Connecting the Dots). The essays presented here are organized around five themes: 1) Searching For Opportunity In A Time Of Crisis; 2) Rethinking Education; 3) Awakening To Wonder; 4) What We Believe, We Become; And 5) Taking A Stand.
- I. SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS
- What's in a Footprint?
- Turning our Lawns into a Patchwork Farm
- Giving Away our Power
- Are we Making Progress?
- Sprawl—Too Much of a Good Thing?
- A Special Moment in History
- A Future We Can Live With
- Pathway to a Sustainable Food System
- Lost and Found
- Caring for Climate by Changing our Consciousness
- State College: The Garden City?
- Spirit of Holiday Brings to Mind Worthy Questions
- Is the Economy's Demise Our Neighbor's Rise?
- You Can Find Happiness in the New Year
- Listening to the Messages in Student Drinking
- II. RETHINKING EDUCATION
- I Want a World Where ...
- Discovering the Power of Questions
- What’s Missing in Schools?
- Food Investigations
- Softening the Belly
- Slowing Down
- Careful with that Praise
- Mindsets Affect Our Ability To Learn
- The Power of Pausing
- The Importance and Power of Physical Touch
- Schooling as if Life Matters
- Obama's School Vision has its Flaws
- III. AWAKENING TO WONDER
- Air: Empty Space or Animating force?
- Feeling: The Force of Life
- We Are Stardust
- A Visceral Relationship with Water
- Cultivating Intimacy with Trees
- A Summertime Thought Experiment
- Crows 'R Us
- Becoming a Nature Listener
- Time to Celebrate INTER-dependence Day
- IV. WHAT WE BELIEVE WE BECOME
- Unexamined Beliefs at the Root of Every Day Stress
- Old Age has a Bad Reputation
- The Ideology of the Cancer Cell
- A New Way of Communicating
- A Tiger, a Vision, a Belief
- Fixing Earth By Fixing Ourselves
- Walking on Water
- Radical Self Acceptance
- The Final Freedom
- The Most Important Relationship
- Humans Approach a Great Turning
- Research Shows Humans' Interconnectivity
- 'Response-ability' A Positive life Change
- Making Friends with Death
- V. TAKING A STAND
- Time for Some New Rules?
- Is it Worth It?
- Activism: The Heart of Citizenship
- Seeing the Lawn Differently
- Loving the Insects
- Buy Nothing Day
- Truthspeaking
- A Radical Politics: Saying Yes To Love
- Peak Oil and The Precautionary Principle
- Moving Beyond Good versus Bad
- A Stimulus Package Of, By and For the People