An Ordinary Mystic

Mornings are the best. A hot shower, liquid sunshine. A warm hug from the universe. From 1968 when I broke my neck, until 1983 when I moved into a wheelchair accessible room in Owen Graduate Center, at Michigan State University I lived without an accessible bath or shower. Consequently, most days I washed up in a basin with a pitcher of hot water. I showered once a week at most. Now I have a beautiful accessible home, with a roll in shower that is almost as large as my entire room was in the Graduate Center. Each morning when the hot water hits the back of my neck and cascades down my shoulders, I know everything will be OK. Its all good.

What's your favorite simple pleasure?

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I ran across the following while preparing for the University Diversity Council (EMU) retreat and doing a web search for the term "most significant environmental challenges."

Congressional Testimony: China's Environmental Challenges

Author: Elizabeth C. Economy , C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, House International Affairs Committee. The article links the environmental devastation currently taking place in China in the wake of its economic boom with changing U.S. weather patterns. One cannot possibly fail to recognize the connection between the outmoded values of capitalism and imperialism that have led us down a perilous path to the brink of global ruin.

Our only hope is a global society based on the values of inclusion and access. We can no longer afford to view the human enterprise as a zero-sum game. If everyone doesn't win we will all most certainly lose.

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