Hello.
I’ve just written a review of Mary Pipher’s book Writing to Change the World, and am still digesting her words of advice and quotes from other world changers. Here are some that moved me:
“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” James Baldwin
“God has created enough for every one of us. Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.” Anne Frank.
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.” George Carlin
“The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people have found a use for themselves, like a good tool.” Barbara Kingsolver
If you’d like to read my review, it will be coming out in the May issue of the zine Writers on the Rise.
The particular world changing writing I’m focused on is how to make a contribution to the reinvention of culture that we need to do as the price of our overconsumption and overpopulation begin to come due. Last Saturday I went through normal activities, but asked myself how the lack of affordable oil would effect whatever I was doing.
What I learned is that even for someone who has read, thought, and written quite a bit on the issues facing us, I still find the actual daily reality of a no-oil life very difficult to picture clearly. Notes from that observation exercise will appear here soon.
SWC
