Posts Tagged as ‘international development’

February 5, 2008

Helping, and respecting, at the same time

The last couple of posts here have focused on the technology we use to connect with one another. It can be a full-time job, keeping up with the new and often amazing tools that facilitate those connections.
But always and inevitably my attention turns back to what it is we’re connecting for. What is it we hope to accomplish with this [...]

January 14, 2008

Backpacking, physics, & philosophy; or, a bit about where I’m coming from

A couple of years ago, I spent some time researching a worldview that suggests that everything around us that appears unique and distinguishable – including our thoughts, our own individual-ness, all of reality and our ability to understand reality, everything – are “highlighted aspects” of an undivided wholeness. This undivided wholeness, it was suggested, exists at [...]