Like Arthur in the photo above, I always wanted to play in the IHSA boys’ basketball state tournament in the Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois.
As a kid, I used to attend University of Illinois games there to see the great Skip Thoren, Don Freeman and Dave Downey. Alas, I couldn’t even make the team at Edison Junior High in seventh and eighth grade. So I transferred to Uni High for the basketball program. Of course, no one knew they had a program. They just had a team that I knew was so bad they’d have to play me. Read on…
I signed on to this pledge of interdependence. It’s a worldwide movement.
Our two issue campaigns (for global public health and addressing the urgent needs of vulnerable populations) are moving forward quickly and our newest campaign encouraging people to demonstrate their appreciation of interdependence is taking shape. We’ve formed a group working toward establishing an “Interdependence Academy” (name TBC) that will galvanize our education, training, and community-building efforts. The only way our principles have value is by leading to meaningful change at all levels benefitting real people.
If you haven’t already seen our strategy for how we hope to deliver that change, we encourage you to check it out. But we need your help.
We hope you will please recruit three new people every day to sign the pledge and ask each of them to do the same. We hope you will help build our #onesharedworld movement on social media. As we roll out our first campaigns, we’ll also need your help advocating for the urgent needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations to be met.
My brilliant filmmaker colleague Mark Rappaport is an innovative iconoclast. I always told him that if I ever did a Ph.D. in film criticism I would write my dissertation on his work. Starting May 25 the FILMMUSEUM MÜNCHEN began a 7 week 14 program MARK RAPPAPORT STREAMING RETROSPECTIVE that you can watch in your own home. Every program is three or four days. All day long! No charge! https://vimeo.com/filmmuseummuenchen. Feel free to pass this information on to anyone. Watch now, while you can!
Jim Horton, one of the forebears of the worldwide Rites of Passage (ROP) movement, died at his home in New Zealand in May. He was a good and gracious man, deeply thoughtful about how community sustainability requires ritual and human transformation. I had the privilege of joining my Australian friend Arne Rubinstein (another key ROP figure) for a stay with Jim in October 2015. This photo was taken inside his amazing self-built home. The interview his son Jay filmed for me is here. It’s part of our World Wisdom Library – over 30 whole interviews I’ve made available free of charge to the public with many of the key figures in this worldwide movement.