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2005

From Harold Masback, First, Reach Up" (January 16, 2005) at pages 5-6:

When I was first married and just beginning my career, I thought my time dilemma was simply circumstantial. I thought that it was the temporary rigors of starting a new job and family. Then there was a phase when I thought I just didn’t have enough information, so I read books and articles about time management. In my thirties I was reading and studying Steven Covey books on techniques and tips to maximize efficiency, and in my forties I was buying up Microsoft Outlook and palm pilots and Handspring Treos. Surely some of our time problems are circumstantial; young children and new jobs do demand lots of attention, and there are efficiencies to be gained in information, techniques, and equipment. But when you’re still belly flopping at age 50, you’ve got to wonder if there isn’t something deeper, more profound, more intractable burdening our struggle with time. Is there anyone among us who still thinks our anxious tussle with time will be resolved by one more book, or one more Franklin-Covey course, or one more Blackberry? Should God in his mercy suddenly grant us all an eighth day every week, don’t we just know we’d have those new blank calendar pages filled within a matter of months?

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 267:

Emerson said, Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day.”

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 265:

We Americans are easily pleased, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and $50,000.” – Greg Brown

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 264:

Collective action is not all taking our Prozac at the same time” – Dick Simon

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 256:

Ursula K. Le Guin said, Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone: it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at pages 255-256:

I visited a beautiful neighborhood in Connecticut. There were large houses with spacious yards on winding, tree-lined streets. But my hosts knew none of their neighbors. They wouldn’t even recognize them on the street. Their children didn’t know the neighborhood children. No one played out of doors. This was a bedroom community” in which people spent the day away and then came home to their TVs, computers and stereo systems. Everyone was busy, they had their own little worlds but every family was alone. And of course many parents were tired. The parents worked long hours and came home spent. The little time they did have they wanted for their children. Rather than go to a meeting, they supervised homework or prepared a meal. There is a season for civic involvement and parents with young children cannot do much. Later they can perhaps participate more in the life of their town. But even the busiest person could do a little. These parents could learn the names of the families on their block and wave to the children and retired people. They could help kids find lumber to build a fort or help an elderly neighbor into her apartment with her groceries.

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 253:

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us in a bad time.” E.B. White

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 252:

This century has suffered from what Foucault called dividing practices.” We have been separated from each other and the natural world. Nietzsche wrote that “sin is that which separates.” But we can reintegrate our world and reweave a coat of meaning that we can all wear for protection from the elements.

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 251:

We can act if we believe we can act. We can build new good things. The cure for cynicism, depression and narcissism is social action. Action solves two problems. It makes communities better and it gives people a sense of meaning and purpose

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1996

From Mary Pipher, Ph.D., The Shelter of Each Other - Rebuilding Our Families (1996) at page 250:

Love the earth and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants and argue not concerning God.” – Walt Whitman In A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman compared our time to the Middle Ages. The fourteenth century was characterized by economic chaos, frenetic gaiety, debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed and the decay of manners. In the Middle Ages, people were better than their institutions. The times were violent, tormented and disintergrating. But after the Middle Ages came the Renaissance. As Yeats wrote in “The Second Coming,” “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/The best lack of all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.” In the 1980s many people retreated into private life. They tried to go first class on the Titanic, but that didn’t work. By now it is clear that our public world must be saved. As Hillman wrote, the self is the internalization of the community. We cannot be healthy in a community full of pathology. We are all joined at the hip.

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