My mother-in-law, Yvonne Jewell, died January 23. Juan, Lisa, and I all posted tributes on Facebook. We held a memorial service for her at Willistown Friends Meeting on April 23. The service was full of memories and very moving. We thank all the family members and friends who came and shared, both in the Meetinghouse … More In memoriam Yvonne Jewell
I enjoy Tom Ewell’s Saturday Evening Letters so much that I want to share the link to his archive here. Please browse and feel your spiritual life deepen.
September 30, 2021 It has been a long time since I have dissolved into uncontrollable tears of grief. But last night, when I was watching a town hall about the sewer project – yes, a sewer project — that is going to go past us in the next few years, there I was. I couldn’t … More Tears for Trees
This post followed closely on the one that started my personal project “Reimagining Redmond.” I am reposting it here to have a full archive on this site. 13 July 2020 Who lives in Redmond? In my recent posts, living in the force field of the Black Lives Matter movement, I have been coming to ethical … More Who Lives in Redmond?
After putting in my pleas for memorials to the times war was averted and people did not have to be killed, I remembered one that we saw on the other side of the world: The Kyoto Museum for World Peace. Here is its mission: The twentieth century saw two world wars, in which tens of … More A peace memorial
This is the Facebook post from last year that signaled the start of my Reimagining Redmond personal project. The project grows from my effort to understand and act on the ethical implications of living in Redmond, Washington. … More Starting to Reimagine Redmond
We are just back from an East Coast swing with our daughter and three of the grandkids. On Monday, Lisa was tied up with school system interviews, so we took the kids for some drives down memory lane in Washington, DC, plus memorials. We had promised their father that we would see the Vietnam Memorial … More Where are the peace memorials?
This year’s Technology and Innovation Report from UNCTAD (the United Nations Commission on Technology and Development) analyzes the ways “frontier technologies” like artificial intelligence may increase or decrease existing inequalities, “within and between countries.” I wrote some of the background material for the report. On April 27, the UNCTAD staff presented the main points of … More Frontier Technologies — helping or not?
In India, government budgets are introduced with fanfare. The latest budget for the State of Kerala was introduced with comments from innovation studies scholars from around the world, including me. Kerala is known, particularly through the writings of Amartya Sen, for achieving high levels of health and education with low levels of average wealth through … More Kerala — oh, no, not … !
On May 4, I contributed to an event associated with the United Nations STI Forum, introducing the STRINGS Project, Steering STI for the SDGs, that is, Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event summary and recording is here. Here is what I said: Thanks for including me in both the STRINGS … More STI for SDGs — more than UN acronyms
Finding My Place 