3:12 pm. I just arrived home from breast cancer surgery. The doctor removed a “measly” mass from my right breast, discovered through several rounds of sophisticated imaging that started with a regularly-scheduled exam. She also removed some lymph nodes, to check to see whether the cancer had spread. Now I rest, ice, and wait for … More On the side of Peace
As you have read in my introduction to this theme, Reimagining Redmond is a moral imperative for me. But my work has been encouraged by the participatory action research orientation of the Quaker Institute for the Future. I presented stages of the work in the 2021 and 2022 QIF Summer Research Seminars and was asked … More Reports on Reimagining Redmond
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?
April 2, 2020 Walking In active retreat from the virus Blessed by Trails next to a river that breathes Up and down with spring rains, New leaves arching out of branches Clouds Rolling in from the Pacific Grey and white puppies rolling playfully Across the sky, towards the mountains Birds So many urgent voices High, … More Birds
Finding My Place 