Wow! After recovering from a rather painful sore throat + sinus congestion bug, it’s time to blog about the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies. Of course, I can’t do that justice in the five minutes available right now, so I’ll embed a clip of Badi, our homegrown hip hop hero, performing [...]
http://news.bahai.org/story/632 I was not yet born in 1980, when the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran was arrested under similar circumstances, and disappeared. Assuredly those dear friends were executed. If history is any indication, the Baha’is who were arrested on Wednesday, May 14th 2008 will be imprisoned, threatened, told that if they would [...]
If you water house plants daily, regularly, (unnaturally, considering rain fall patterns), they tend to develop roots that are close to the surface, superficial. If you let the soil dry out just a bit, the plants are challenged; the roots have to go deeper to find sustenance, to grow in ways that provide more stability [...]
In “Make This Earth Day Your Last” over at WorldChanging, Alex Steffen and Sarah Rich forced me to struggle with my current attitudes about sustainability and systems change. I thought I would blog my process. In summary: Gestures are not enough. What is required is a transformation of consciousness, and a united understanding of our [...]
My RSS reader tells me that a new painting is up over at limonana. The Conference of the Birds is beautiful. I can’t get over the cartoonish curve of the horizon line, the minimalist trees, and the dense, almost moiré patterns of gold leaves (or something) beneath the horizon. The artist’s work and contact information [...]
In a whole blog full of beautiful posts, Blogwarrior Phillipe has just cast light on the Don Imus thing from a Bahá’àperspective on strength, nobility, and the station of African Americans: What I concluded is that the excessive focus on how upsetting these kinds of statements are to African Americans is a way of [...]
!pain kicked off an illustrious comment on universal participation with a reference to the Valley of Knowledge, a Valley I’ve been studying recently. Beyond containing one of the best Layli and Majnun stories ever, the Valley of Knowledge describes (for me) a state of being in which one sees the nature of things, and recognizes [...]