Makin’ some changes ’round here

Changes…

Various

Various updates, including another about the 2nd gravlax, the letter I wrote to the president, etc.

Tapping out

It’s been an informative few days.

I want to declare publicly that while I am Hanne Blank’s partner, her words are hers and mine are mine. Any conflation of the two is solely the responsibility of the conflater.

Otherwise, I need to take leave of the discussions about activism, race, racism, etc. These discussions are getting too [...]

Finally saw Kung Fu Panda and…

I liked it.

I understand it did well in China, despite a boycott cum possible PR stunt by a Chinese designer.

I didn’t find many of its tropes tired. If anything, the Kung Fu stuff, the Chinese stuff, I thought was definitely in keeping with the Kung Fu Movie traditions and also some of it was quite [...]

About halfway through and I’m not done talking

I have at least four more Tao of… posts to write. I’d planned to write 8 and I’m sticking to that promise, both for symbolic and thematic reasons.

I hope that it’s doing more folks than just me good, but it is doing me good to articulate myself and some of my beliefs about being an [...]

Tao of the Warrior 4: Joy

Do you know joy? Do you have joy in your work as a warrior? Can you identify and react appropriately to instances of joy during the very moments you are working your hardest to fight? Can you share in your opponent’s joys? All of these skills are vitally important. As you have other duties and [...]

Tao of the Warrior 2: Endurance

If you haven’t the strength for the discipline or responsibility of warriorship, you shouldn’t be fighting.

Otherwise known as, “If you can’t take the heat…”

This one, the second principle, gets tied to Earth in the I Ching, which stands in part for infinite resources and capacity, and some interpret it also as a symbol for unconditional [...]

Tao, Warriors, and a little more context

Just to frame the discussion a bit more, let me tell you more about my aims and my plans.

I plan to write at least 8 total essays/posts about this topic of being a warrior/activist, and about the ethical framework I find useful as a guiding principle when I fight for social change.

Tao of the Warrior 1: Anger for Fuel, not for Fire

What is anger to us? Does it drive us? Or do we drive anger? Where is the soul of the warrior in this [...]

Two things make a post

Don’t vote. Or do, I mean, if you, like, care about, well… anything. But if you don’t care, don’t vote. A very well done bit of reverse psychology, I think.
TCHO is this new “startup” style chocolatier which also does social programs that are sort of open source experiments with chocolate growers to systematize the method [...]