Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/arlenegoldbard/page/10/)
When interviewed about Richie Incognito’s racist bullying of fellow Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin, some athletes have sought to exonerate Incognito, instead blaming football “culture.” In truth, culture is made by humans, which means we all have the capacity to reject a culture of brutality.
Why can’t we upcycle our abundant creativity, so that all our efforts to dream and enact a more vibrant, loving, and just future feed into new and better ways of doing it, rather than counting them as failures and dumping them into history’s landfill?
Goldbard discusses finding a balance between using machines and becoming dependent on them.
I’m going through one of those bumpy passages on the journey to belonging.I moved a couple of months ago, and while the reason was love and I feel the opposite of regret, the adjustment to a new community is pushing some ancient buttons. As with many children of immigrants, I know what it’s like to feel in it but not of it. By now, the catalog of my own complaints is intensely boring to me: I don’t know how to meet the people who might belong to my own quirky tribe if only I knew who they were; I’m always getting a little lost; the relatively short distance to my old neighborhood and old friends seems much longer now that I’m on the other side of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. I imagine that this too shall pass, and probably pretty quickly. I’ve moved more than 25 times in my life, so I know the dance.