Diamond, I am so grateful to you for helping teach Taoist principles for how to think about and move through our times. I've shared this post with participants in my year long group, with family, and will be sharing on Substack. I can feel the balanced, peaceful, yet powerful action energy within this post. I really value your wisdom and contributions you are making in our country right now!
Hi Kitty — Great News! I randomly met your friend here in Fort Collins while standing outside of Trader Joe’s this past weekend. She recognized my face from reading The Chocolate Taoist Substack and came over and said hi.
That is so cool Diamond! I'm so glad you connected with Tricia. That's the beauty of small towns. Hopefully you will run into each other again. You both are such beautiful people!
The pendulum swings hard.. yet i find the university idea wrong. As a place of education, all discussions of any sector of himanity should be continued. Removing a strange and archaic DEA is just a construct, highly defined, yet still a recent construct that appeared to help others. In reality it created more divisions. That the removal of that construct should never diminish regular studies. Her refusal was in keeping the long history of education of women studies alive.... subsets of specific cultures included. Just strikes me as odd that any university would go to that conclusion when asked to remove DEA.
As I began to read at first I thought, "How odd to frame a story of integrity, of principled contempt to think that her opinions could be bought, merely as a First Amendment violation. It is not as if her hair was forcibly removed, or she had to publicly consume a collop carved out of a bullock sacrificed to Zeus, or feel the scourge." But reading further I began to see our thoughts agree although our words would come out different. There is a narrow legalistic view, in contrast to a wide and welcoming embrace, of "Congress shall pass no law..." I think along the squinty legal line, and you the smiling social one. Your thoughts on what response to make are also mostly mine, I think. Why chain ourselves to reprehensitivity when we can make a separate better way? This site, here, (sadly we must say, "for now") helps us to advance the work.
Diamond, I am so grateful to you for helping teach Taoist principles for how to think about and move through our times. I've shared this post with participants in my year long group, with family, and will be sharing on Substack. I can feel the balanced, peaceful, yet powerful action energy within this post. I really value your wisdom and contributions you are making in our country right now!
Hi Kitty — Great News! I randomly met your friend here in Fort Collins while standing outside of Trader Joe’s this past weekend. She recognized my face from reading The Chocolate Taoist Substack and came over and said hi.
That is so cool Diamond! I'm so glad you connected with Tricia. That's the beauty of small towns. Hopefully you will run into each other again. You both are such beautiful people!
Nice;y said
Thanks Lewis. Great to hear from you.
To resistance. Thank you for this piece, Diamond Michael.
The pendulum swings hard.. yet i find the university idea wrong. As a place of education, all discussions of any sector of himanity should be continued. Removing a strange and archaic DEA is just a construct, highly defined, yet still a recent construct that appeared to help others. In reality it created more divisions. That the removal of that construct should never diminish regular studies. Her refusal was in keeping the long history of education of women studies alive.... subsets of specific cultures included. Just strikes me as odd that any university would go to that conclusion when asked to remove DEA.
As I began to read at first I thought, "How odd to frame a story of integrity, of principled contempt to think that her opinions could be bought, merely as a First Amendment violation. It is not as if her hair was forcibly removed, or she had to publicly consume a collop carved out of a bullock sacrificed to Zeus, or feel the scourge." But reading further I began to see our thoughts agree although our words would come out different. There is a narrow legalistic view, in contrast to a wide and welcoming embrace, of "Congress shall pass no law..." I think along the squinty legal line, and you the smiling social one. Your thoughts on what response to make are also mostly mine, I think. Why chain ourselves to reprehensitivity when we can make a separate better way? This site, here, (sadly we must say, "for now") helps us to advance the work.