Posted on December 3, 2008 by Boggs
Center
By: Rich Feldman
We should fight for our lives, be in the streets but we need to look in the mirror.
This is the realignment of the empire and we need to ask ourselves about the consciousness
and transformation that evolves when we refuse to look in the mirror and when we make this a narrow struggle of labor versus
capital.
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Midwifing a New America
Posted on November 9, 2008 by Boggs Center
By: Vincent G. Harding, PhD
I think it was sometime early in 2007 that I began to find myself almost possessed by a profound premonitory
sense that the next year, this year, 2008, would be filled with a special power. At first I was unable to articulate or explain
my feeling with any more clarity than a deep and growing conviction that we were approaching what my Buddhist friends would
call a propitious historical moment. Although I realized that the likelihood of an amazing presidential electoral possibility
was a part of the story, I knew there was more at work. I began increasingly to suspect that there was a relentless connection
in my mind (and heart) to the fact that the spring of 2008 would mark 40 years since the assassination of my friend and brother,
Martin King. Grounded as I am in the biblical accounts of 40 days and nights of rain, 40 years of wandering in the wilderness,
40 days of testing and preparation for Jesus’ ministry, I could not resist the possible symbolic associations and what
meaning they might have.
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Posted on October 30, 2008 by Boggs Center
The Story Owners Collective announces a brand new form of personal story-telling theater, with their
Detroit premiere of THE RED THREAD: Interwoven Performance Portraits. The play uses personal narrative to honor individual
journeys while revealing social interconnectedness. An ancient Chinese proverb speaks of an invisible red thread of destiny,
which connects all humans to each other. It is said that this magical cord may tangle or stretch but will never break.
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Boggs Center
By: Joe Reilly
“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion is all around…But I know, somehow,
that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
~Martin Luther King Jr., 1968
I am practicing trust. Last week I boarded a plane to San Fransisco to visit dear friends and sing
at the Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center in Marin County. I exercised my faith in the pilot, the mechanics, and the flight crew.
I trusted that gravity and aerodynamics would still work the same way and that I would be carried safely through the clouds
and over the mountains.
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Boggs Center
By Larry Sparks, Eumanist
In these times of troubles, most Americans are unaware of the potential in our everyday decisions.
The challenges we face are the consequences of the courage shown and the choices made by our ancestors and elders. Our decisions
and choices are our gifts to our children and friends.
Very few people realize that in our era of materialism and ill reason, we have to go against our common
sense in order to become more human human beings. We have the opportunity and responsibility to become fifty times grander
than we ever thought we could be; the responsibility and opportunity to transcend the mundane and become the extraordinary.
Out of today’s negativity, by the everyday choices we make, we can move to and advance our species to the next stage
of human evolution.
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Posted on September 8, 2008 by Boggs Center
Video by: Oren Goldenberg and Jon Blount
