Al Gore on How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think - The Atlantic

Our societies, culture, politics, commerce, educational systems, ways of relating to one another — and our ways of thinking — are all being profoundly reorganized with the emergence of the Global Mind and the growth of digital information at exponential rates…

Al Gore, The Future (2013)

If one sinks deep enough there is surely company waiting. Otherwise, if one does not have a home and has not sunk into self, and seeks company, the company is lonesome.

Walker Percy, from The Second Coming

“All these dreams inside of me
I swear we’re gonna get there
Sooner or later, we’re gonna make it”
A song I sometimes use to get me going in the morning… Here’s to chasing dreams and turning them into reality.

Everyone’s a little hipster… Great video on “hipster-dom” and cultural capital in the digital age

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Are You A Hipster? | Idea Channel | PBS

We all hate hipsters, right? They seem so smug and arrogant, with their ray bans and scarves and ironic t-shirts. Even those who CLEARLY ARE hipsters still recoil at the label. Embracing irony over earnestness, the key to hipsters is not just what they enjoy, but how they enjoy it. Borrowing from other subcultures, (see: Handlebar mustaches and flannel shirts), hipsters reappropriate these fashion elements as their own. But don’t we all do that? Our own fashion came from SOMEWHERE, and certainly has been refined. Do we all have a little bit of hipster blood in us?

 

Freefall…

As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
free fall, and float
into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.

Denise Levertov, “The Avowal”

Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of [our founding] words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth. -President Obama’s Inaugural Speech, January 21 Thankful for the chance to witness this live on Monday.

Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of [our founding] words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.

-President Obama’s Inaugural Speech, January 21

Thankful for the chance to witness this live on Monday.