My family and I are headed out to Disney World tomorrow morning, and I originally had grand plans to write posts ahead of time in order to put them up while on vacation, but alas, the stuff of life conspired against me, and it was not to be. I’ll be back to posting on Monday, [...]
All posts for the month January, 2010
Good stuff: Ah, vacation!
Posted by emilylhauser on January 29, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/good-stuff-goin-to-disney/
Loving your enemies.
I’m blogging about Martin Luther King’s Strength to Love. Each post can be read independently, but if you’re interested, previous installments are here. Unless otherwise noted, emphasized passages are Dr. King’s. Chapter five – Loving your enemies Another one of the chapters written while Dr. King sat in a Georgia jail. “Let us be practical,” [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 28, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/loving-your-enemies/
Love in action.
Or: “MLK – live blog-ish, part 5.” This project has long since ceased to be anything close to a “live” blog, so I’m moving on! From this point forward, posts considering Strength to Love will be titled after the chapter they investigate. Each can be read independently of previous installments, but if you’re interested, those [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 27, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/love-in-action/
Your mission today.
I am told by my overlords at TPM and Balloon Juice that the House is coming around to a consensus whereby they will pass the Senate version of the health care reform bill, “once it’s clear that it will be changed through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process,” though TPM cautions: “Before they can move ahead, they [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 27, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/your-mission-today/
MLK – live blog-ish, part 4.
Here’s the story behind this quirky project; here are the previous installments. Chapter three – On being a good neighbor “I should like to talk with you about a good man,” Dr. King opens, “whose exemplary life will always be a flashing light to plague the dozing conscience of mankind.” And so, a reminder, first [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 26, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/mlk-live-blog-ish-part-4/
Good Stuff: Who said it?
Who do you think said the following? Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’ll be honest — sitting in front of my intertubes the other day, when the words “but if you work really hard” [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 26, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/good-stuff-who-said-it/
Health Care Reform: Please call Congress.
Over at Balloon Juice, Tim F. (one of bloggers who isn’t John Cole) is doing an enormous amount of work urging people to call Congress and tell them to just Pass.The.Damn.Bill. I am convinced that the time to get a good start on desperately need health care reform is running out — and that furthermore, [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 25, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/health-care-reform-please-call-congress/
MLK – Live blog-ish, part 3.
An explanation of this project can be found here. Part 1 is here, and part 2 is here. Chapter two – Transformed nonconformist I came of age when the notion of rebelling against stifling conformity was de rigueur — indeed, the arts of the 1970s were suffused with exhaustive and exhausting efforts to show just [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 22, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/mlk-live-blog-ish-part-3/
Chicago, January 21
I have lived more of my life in The Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area than any other place on earth. You would think I would be inured to the mid-winter weather. I am not. I AM NOT INURED! Today it rained, all day. Thirty-three fucking degrees on the thermometer, and constant rain. The only thing grayer [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 21, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/chicago-january-21/
Isolation and its discontents.
When I first moved to Israel, even before I fully understood the implications of the occupation, I could see that, for the most part, Jews and Arabs didn’t much know each other (and if I recall, that was what Israeli Jews called the Palestinians at the time, just: Arabs). The former ran the place, and [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on January 21, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/isolation-and-its-discontents/
