Thursday, August 4, 2011

Ubuntu : Humanity : Vulnerability

Hope and peace are worth listening and living toward

UBUNTU
HUMANITY
VULNERABILITY

The three videos below give us a place to begin speaking into the radiance of humanity, of our humanness, of our shared beauty and brilliance. Of the monsters in our closets and the moments we're too ashamed to mention. Of our ability to soar on wings like eagles and slit throats. Of our misconceptions, glorious triumphs, and failed attempts. Of our world and what we see in us. Of our intense complexity, power, love, passion, confusion, intention, fear, and peace. What an overlooked privilege and responsibility it is to be entrusted as human.

Watch these video clips, not all at once though. Watch them slowly, think about them, their implications, the inferences you can make based on them, how they challenge and/or bolster what you've accepted as true and certain, what will you do now that you know this?

These clips are a good jumping point and I hope they leave you asking good questions... let's invite one another into wading though our thoughts, actions, and ideals together... it can be quiet puzzling, but we are not hopeless or helpless, though it may feel that way at times.

Chew thoroughly.




UBUNTU (1 of 3 from my trip to SA)








PHILIP ZIMBARDO: RESEARCH, HUMANITY, POWER, GOOD/EVIL
















BRENE BROWN: THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY













Radical interdependence.
Shalom.
Systemic and systematic evaluation, empowerment and reform.



as always, thoughtful and respectfully provoking comments are requested