July 2006

As violence in the Middle East escalates, a fresh perspective is brought to the age-old conflict through the game of basketball

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=playingforpeace&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos1

Choose to believe something different.  Eikon.  Telling a better story. 

If you are aware of any other stories where hope is shining through because people choose to see things differently and tell a different story, please pass them on to me.   

Last week I took my daughters, Gracie and Ellie, to their first baseball game.  We had a great night!  I’d like to think they are true baseball fans in the making, but I think it was the nachos, and the dippin dots in the souvenier mini-helmet that made it a great night for them.  Regardless, sharing those few hours together on a hot summer night in Nashville, taking in the poetic game of baseball, were priceless.

 

 

“We associate truth with convenience, with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life.  We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self esteem.  Economic and social behavior are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring.  Therefore we adhere, as though to a raft, to those ideas which represent our understanding.  So, conventional wisdom must be simple, convenient, comfortable, and comforting, though not necessarily true.”

                                John Kenneth Galbraith as quoted in Freakonomics

What do I accept as truth because it is comfortable and convenient?  How does embracing the actual truth effect the way I live?  Global warming is a big deal right now.  Recently I was listening to a radio program that was calling it a myth, it’s all a cycle, everything is fine.  It seems much more convenient and comfortable to believe that as truth.  If the global warming crisis is truth, then it would force a great number of people to have to make changes in their lifestyles, taking responsibilty for their damaging actions.  Existing for self continues to depreciate humanity’s quality of life.  If we could only embrace our human design to exist for something greater than self.  How can that become the truth of humanity…