All Blog Posts Tagged 'reskilling' (2)

This morning as I was gathering news for Truth to Power's Daily News Digest, I opened Sharon Astyk's blogspot, one of my very favorite, to find her caustic commentary on the death and funeral of Michael Jackson. As her comments distilled in my mind and body, I realized that I have even more to say about this cultural phenomenon-no desire to say it better than Sharon because who could (?), but hopefully to embellish her inimitable incisiveness. Now before proceeding, I ask the reader to refrain… Continue

Individuals concerned with the unprecedented changes the earth community is undergoing tend to venerate America’s Amish for their simple, earth-based lifestyle of frugality and solid commitment to caring for the other members of their community. There is much we have to learn from them, but more recently, there is yet another lesson they offer, and perhaps, not one we expected. A Wall St. Journal article, July 1 entitled, “A bank run teaches the ‘plain people’ about the risks of modernity”, by… Continue