Hold this ThoughtHold This Thought is a daily, 1-minute thought from literature, history, or culture designed to change the world.Traditional Food Guide: Matthew Ione- September 22, 2008 The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium recently produced a Traditional Food Guide for cancer survivors. The Guide includes nutrition information and recipes for subsistence foods, as well as stories about food-gathering. One of the stories is my own, about growing up with food from the land in White Mountain: "My grandfather and uncle taught me how to hunt starting when I was 7 years old.... I remember sitting in blinds for hours trying to call ducks and waiting and waiting. I...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/22/Traditional-Food-Guide-Matthew-Ion... Time Enough for Love: Kelly Tjaden- September 19, 2008 In Time Enough for Love, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein includes excerpts from the notebooks of his character, Lazarus Long. Lazarus lists 21 things he believes a person should be able to perform: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch..http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/19/Time-Enough-for-Love-Kelly-Tjaden Seven Life Lessons Of Chaos: Gwen Kennedy- September 18, 2008 In Seven Life Lessons Of Chaos, John Briggs and F. David Peat write: ‘The physicist David Bohm, who devoted his last years to the investigation of dialogue, describes: Dialogue is "not an exchange and it&39;s not a discussion. Discussion means batting it back and forth like a ping-pong game. That has some value, but in dialogue we try to go deeper ... to create a situation where we suspend our opinions and judgments in order to be able to listen to each other." ......http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/18/Seven-Life-Lessons-Of-Chaos-Gwen-K... A Republic or a Monarchy: Ken Varee- September 17, 2008 On September 17, 1787, some of the brightest men in America exited the Pennsylvania Statehouse in Philadelphia. They had been working, in secret and in a locked and stuffy chamber, since late May -- arguing, debating, and finally, compromising. The result was the Constitution of the United States. But because George Washington had sworn the delegates to total secrecy while they fashioned this remarkable document, the public remained in the dark about the nature of the work these Founding...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/17/A-Republic-or-a-Monarchy-Ken-Varee In the Tub Tonight, My Son: Anne Caston- September 16, 2008 This is Anne Caston. I wrote this poem, "In The Tub Tonight, My Son," about something my son did when he was two. In the tub tonight, my son and his favorite boats. Go down, he says like God. Like God, he plants one finger on each bow. The boats oblige. But when he lifts his hands, the foolish things bob up again, white-sailed and arrogant. This angers him, the boy, and in a rage I have not seen in him before, he tears the sail from each blue boat and rends them, masts and.http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/16/In-the-Tub-Tonight-My-Son-Anne-Cas... A Man Without a Country: Helen Howarth- September 15, 2008 In his final book, A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut writes: "No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/15/A-Man-Without-a-Country-Helen-Howa... Miriam's Kitchen: Mary Jo Robinson- September 12, 2008 In Miriam&39;s Kitchen, author Elizabeth Ehrlich describes her mother&39;s chicken soup for the Sabbath: ‘Into the pot on Friday went the soup makings, the chicken, the giblets, whole onions, and salt. ... Into the pot went that which she chose to continue. ... sentiment, homeland and yearning, the ten commandments, and the right to decide yourself what you want to do. Into the pot went nubbins of carrots, stalks of celery, parsley and parsley root.... Sometimes we ate two or three...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/12/Miriams-Kitchen-Mary-Jo-Robinson The Accidental Explorer: Sherry Simpson- September 11, 2008 This is Sherry Simpson, and this is a piece from my book of essays, The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska. This may be our oldest, truest survival skill: the ability to tell and to learn from each other&39;s stories, whether from Greek mythology, office gossip, the book of Genesis, the wisdom of the elders, or made-for-TV movies. In some ways Alaska is nothing but stories. Pay attention to what people say in bars and across dinner tables and around campfires, and often they are...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/11/The-Accidental-Explorer-Sherry-Sim... Growing Up Native in Alaska - Jaylene Wheeler: Joy Ione- September 10, 2008 Jaylene Wheeler&39;s story is included in the book Growing Up Native in Alaska. Jaylene writes: "When I was in Nome for high school one semester, I took an Alaska studies course. Well, they -- the instructor and the reading materials -- talked about Alaska Natives in the past tense, like we didn&39;t exist today. All we covered was one week on Alaska Natives. It wasn&39;t contemporary issues. It didn&39;t talk about us still being in existence. When I started encountering those kinds of...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/10/Growing-Up-Native-in-Alaska--Jayle... Catch-22: Jim MacKenzie- September 9, 2008 In Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Yossarian, a bombardier, wonders how to get grounded for insanity. ‘There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one&39;s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he...http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/9/Catch22-Jim-MacKenzie |