Arm Your Children
by Snake Bloomstrand We are raising a generation of armored children. “Don’t talk to strangers,” we warn and for good reason. The polar bears are dying! – Black lives matter – Leaders are not to be trusted – and lets not neglect the daily wave of tragedy washing across countless screens at the swipe of a child’s finger. There are endless reasons for a child to armor-up and we encourage it. I’m a fan of armor God knows we...
Turning Weapons into Instruments
Editors note: by Gonzalo Salinas “I believe that the purpose of Art is to come up with ways to transform the most negative instincts, into creative instincts.” ~ Pedro Reyes, a Mexican artist who came up with the idea of transforming guns into musical instruments in a powerful project called “Disarm”. In a previous installation, “Shovels for Guns,” the people in Culiacan, a violent city in Mexico,...
A Long Lost Letter From Your Innate Creative Self
By Gonzalo Salinas On www.highexistence.com, I found this article about creativity written by Stephanie Kaitlyn Torres, a.k.a. Satori, a great blogger, traveler, and photographer. I think it’s amazing. How many times have I put aside my creative self just to fit into the social conventions? How long has my creative self been sleeping? On this “Letter from your Creative Self,” I hope you find what I found, a very...
Review: ‘Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience’
Millennial madness is with us again as December 2012 looms and, with it, the end of the world as we know it, as "predicted" by the Mayan calendar. It’s a good moment, then, to take note of Richard Landes’ Heaven on Earth.
Is The Process of Becoming a Do It Yourself Project?
by Pedro Serrano My first memorable experience with cognitive dissonance came after reading a quote attributed to Nelson Mandela: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Something about that seemed weird to me. South Africans fearful of their power? They lived in a society where institutionalized racism was defended by millions, and where people, White and...
Ending a “Dads” Stereotype
by Ravenspen Stereotypes abound. They’re a convenient way for me to pigeon-hole people when I don’t want to take the time to put myself in their shoes. Stereotyping makes me feel smug, superior and part of the “in” group. We (I) often express stereotypes in jokes, as if that excuses them. The problem with stereotyping is that we (I) can slip, without noticing it, into believing our own stereotypes, enforcing...
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