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thinkmexican:

La Cosecha - The Story of the Children Who Feed America

The film follows these children as they follow the crops they harvest, their lives governed by climate, demand, trade, and the greater economy.  The verite footage of the children and their year of toil is augmented by the children having the chance to speak for themselves about their lives. Read more here. 

Read a review of La Cosecha here. A big saludo to Eva Longoria for backing this documentary film as an Executive Producer. For more information, visit Shine Global.

$64 a week.

And these are the people who are lazy good-for-nothings who don’t do anything and don’t deserve anything?

I’ll remember that, Mr. I-sit-in-my-air-conditioned-office-40-hours-a-week-and-surf-the-internet-and-shouldn’t-have-to-pay-taxes-because-I’m-a-REAL-AMURRIKAN.

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5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion (for children) (revised)

I revised these to address the translation of Adams’ fourth stone, which is very much part of the Unitarian tradition. I’ve incorporated historic Universalist teaching into the fourth stone.

I appreciate James Luther Adams’ complex and rewarding essay on the five smooth stones of liberal religion. I translated it into a simplified form for use in adult programming, but then that still didn’t pass the five-year-old-test.

I’d like us to be able to use the five smooth stones in our classrooms and at home, as part of living this Unitarian Universalist faith. Adams was thinking about the tradition of five stones David needed to slay Goliath - mythologically, bringing down our own towering monsters of (1) ignorance, (2) individualism, (3) selfishness, (4) apathy and (5) cynicism.

1. We’re always learning.

2. Being together matters.

3. How we are together matters.

4. We  do good to be good & feel good.

5. We always hope.

With these stones we build cities of refuge, houses of love, and gardens of peace

"Every child is a new thought of God, whose individuality is significant and interesting to others…"

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lectures Delivered in Boston, 1872-1882 (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, author, reformer, educator)

(Source: uuquotes)

5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion (for children)

I appreciate James Luther Adams’ complex and rewarding essay on the five smooth stones of liberal religion. I translated it into a simplified form for use in adult programming, but then that still didn’t pass the five-year-old-test.

I’d like us to be able to use the five smooth stones in our classrooms and at home, as part of living this Unitarian Universalist faith. Adams was thinking about the tradition of five stones David needed to slay Goliath - mythologically, bringing down our own towering monsters of (1) ignorance, (2) individualism, (3) selfishness, (4) apathy and (5) cynicism.

1. We’re always learning.

2. Being together matters.

3. How we are together matters.

4. We have to do good to be good.

5. We always hope.

With these stones we build cities of refuge, houses of love, and gardens of peace.

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged"

Rabindranath Tagore (Brahmo Samaj, poet, reformer)

(Source: uuquotes)

"Each night a child is born is a holy night."

Sophia Lyon Fahs (Unitarian Universalist, educator)

(Source: uuquotes)