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revisiting microagressions and social justice (and what white people get out of both) ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I spent most of June this summe, in a graduate Institute with teachers of all grade levels (k-university), in several content areas, and from varied backgrounds. The seminar lasts for three weeks. During week 2 we discuss cultures: what each of us — teacher & student alike — bring to a classroom. Of this year’s…
Metta, lovingkindness, & Buddhist ‘prayer’
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Britton Gildersleeve
This is the ‘prayer’ I’m offering each day over my dozen names, during Lent. It’s the first Buddhist prayer I learned, and remains my favourite. Whenever I’m very stressed, this is what I repeat. It isn’t a prayer in the sense that it’s directed at an outside force; it’s more ‘s a mantra, which is…
giving up disbelief ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I usually try to keep Lent in some fashion. It’s a wonderful practice, to offer up a piece of your everyday life for good. To think of your everyday life as a kind of, well, prayer. As a Buddhist, I don’t know that I ‘pray,’ in the Christian definition of prayer. I don’t believe in…
evolution & blind faith ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
On my bus trip to work, I visited w/ the young woman next to me. She told me her husband was in the Guard, when I asked about her backpack. She shared the work she does to help pay for her tuition, and we exchanged the kind of talk I’m used to, having ridden the…
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