The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.
I’ve added a highly selective bibliography to Cosmos Malick.
The chatbot hopes for
Right-brain wisdom, but gets only
Hallucinations.
I’m starting a new website project — powered by micro.blog! I explain that decision to my Buy Me a Coffee supporters here. If you want to go straight to the website, here it is.
A brief post on redistributing your media portfolio.
One more photo from Jimmy Dorrell’s last service at Church Under the Bridge: Michael Dionne rejoices at his Easter Sunday baptism in the waters of the Bosque River. (Photo by Justin Hamel.)
My neighbor, a young mother, walking around the block with her dog or by herself, staring at her phone
Me: Come on, friend! See the trees leafing out! Listen to the birds!
Same neighbor, walking around the block this afternoon, staring at a book in her hands
Me: You go, girl!!
It would be difficult to overstress how much Jimmy Dorrell has meant, and will continue to mean, to Waco. May the Lord bless Jimmy in his retirement — though I doubt that he’ll be very retiring.