The Artdog Quote of the Week There is no lack of new challenges in our world. Our call to good stewardship demands that we rise to them. But if everyone thinks alike, soon there are no new answers, only old ones that bring less and less well-adapted solutions to evolving problems. We, and our world, need all of us to come together. Only together can we find a way forward. If we remain separated into our little warring camps, we can only continue to scatter our…
The Artdog Quote of the Week For the last few years, there’s been a clash in our public discourse about the nature of strength and its sources. In case I wasn’t enough on record on this topic yet, I stand with Stephen’s analysis. Diversity is not a handicap. It brings a variety of viewpoints, talents, and capabilities to any situation. In our human community as in ecosystems in nature, diversity fosters resilience. IMAGE: Many thanks to Brainy Quote, for this image, featuring a quote from Stephen…
The Artdog Quote of the Week Are you aware of your unconscious biases? Of course not–they’re unconscious! But unconscious bias is abroad in the land, no matter where you live or who you are. The results of such biases for or against others based on gender, ethnicity, culture, appearance, and in many other areas have been observed and documented. And we all have them. It’s a result of how we humans are “wired.” Becoming aware of our unconscious or implicit biases is not usually…
Artdog Quote of the Week It’s back-to-school season this month, and my focus now shifts to the vital importance of nurturing creativity in schools. I’d like to tie this month’s theme to last month’s “strength in diversity” theme. I see the two as being intertwined. We cannot be strong in our diversity unless ALL of our children receive the best possible education. Creative connections made in schools are some of the strongest motivators. As a teacher who’s worked in both rural…
The Artdog Image of Interest Our “strength in diversity” month is coming to a close–and what a strange, challenging month it has been. The temptation is always before us, to retreat back into our own short-focused tribes, build up the barricades, and glare out from behind them with suspicion. But as Maya Angelou and Nate Williams remind us in today’s image, there’s another, better way to look at the world. As long as we fail to see and value the…
The Artdog Quote of the Week: My vision of Strength in Diversity has everything to do with people from different cultures, socio-economic backgrounds, and life experiences coming together to pool their collective wisdom. That is, in fact, also the essence of creativity: drawing ideas from a range of sources and putting them together in new ways. Only through that process can we innovate, develop our potential and make progress toward a better world. This attitude does not mean I’m a…
This week’s Artdog Image of Interest is a Video: Today I’d like to share my little platform with a guy whose Internet identity is “Mike the Cop.” He’s part of the Humanizing the Badge organization, which is doing its part to share a perspective on law enforcement officers that we don’t always get from the media. If we’re genuinely interested in exploring the extent of our diversity, then this is ALSO a minority who should be heard from. So if you’re…
The events of this month so far have left me feeling torn in pieces. From Dallas, before the attack. Can we see more of this, please, and less of what came later? Anyone who reads my blog from time to time will likely have noted that I am interested in, and largely sympathetic toward, law enforcement. Yet another dominant theme for me is social justice Indeed, on July 2nd, I announced that my theme for the quotes and images of…