Comments on: Lessons Learned from the Daily News, Part I http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/current-affairs/2008/07/18/lessons-learned-from-the-daily-news-part-i/ A Perceptive Eye on News, Life & Society. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: leila http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/current-affairs/2008/07/18/lessons-learned-from-the-daily-news-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-504 leila Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:45:13 +0000 http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/?p=176#comment-504 Thank you, all, for your kind responses-- come back shortly, Part II to come very soon. Thank you, all, for your kind responses– come back shortly, Part II to come very soon.

]]> By: Julie http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/current-affairs/2008/07/18/lessons-learned-from-the-daily-news-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Julie Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:03:29 +0000 http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/?p=176#comment-461 Yes, Leila! I'll read the news with you any day. Many of my friends (retired folks) have given up paying much attention to the news because of anxiety it produces in them. They marvel that I can carry on. I need to show them your essay. Still, unless we turn our lives over to Baha'u'llah, will this perspective really stay with us? Yesterday I listened to a PBS series that is described here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_operation_homecoming.html Returning soldiers write stories about their experience. I couldn't help but see how writing helps one put the crazy experiences of life into perspective. The soldiers are mining the "garbage heap of their experience" for gems...true gems! We all need to do the same. Perhaps this is what adolescence is for...to give us something to use as we lay the more solid foundation for the rest of our life. In adolescence we test the extremes, feel the imbalance of excess. Thanks for the essay. I look forward to others. Julie Yes, Leila! I’ll read the news with you any day. Many of my friends (retired folks) have given up paying much attention to the news because of anxiety it produces in them. They marvel that I can carry on. I need to show them your essay. Still, unless we turn our lives over to Baha’u'llah, will this perspective really stay with us?

Yesterday I listened to a PBS series that is described here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_operation_homecoming.html

Returning soldiers write stories about their experience. I couldn’t help but see how writing helps one put the crazy experiences of life into perspective. The soldiers are mining the “garbage heap of their experience” for gems…true gems!

We all need to do the same. Perhaps this is what adolescence is for…to give us something to use as we lay the more solid foundation for the rest of our life.
In adolescence we test the extremes, feel the imbalance of excess.

Thanks for the essay. I look forward to others.
Julie

]]> By: Nava http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/current-affairs/2008/07/18/lessons-learned-from-the-daily-news-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Nava Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:33:42 +0000 http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/?p=176#comment-448 Beautifully written, Leila! Wonderful food for thought. Beautifully written, Leila! Wonderful food for thought.

]]> By: Alexander M Zoltai http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/current-affairs/2008/07/18/lessons-learned-from-the-daily-news-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Alexander M Zoltai Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:10 +0000 http://www.bahaiperspectives.com/?p=176#comment-438 I've just broadcast this post on Diigo, Twitter, and FriendFeed. I love your specific examples of adolescence--quite gracious analogies considering the raw facts. ~ Alex I’ve just broadcast this post on Diigo, Twitter, and FriendFeed.

I love your specific examples of adolescence–quite gracious analogies considering the raw facts.

~ Alex

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