Tag Archives: Marshall Rosenberg

Nonviolence : The Question

The other day a blogger-friend posted news of one of her cats having been injured in a feline-fight.  I responded there, in one of my annoying amusing edgy-jokey moods, recommending that the injured cat should bone up on his nonviolence … Continue reading

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Calling Jackson Galaxy

I perked up big-time when our excellent neighbors Fuzzy and Zoe dropped a line the other day to say:  “There is this new show ‘My Cat From Hell’ on Animal Planet . . . . This guy [Jackson Galaxy] is … Continue reading

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First Law of Kindness

“She openeth her mouth in wisdom and the law of kindness is on her tongue.” – Proverbs 31. I saw that saying just the other day, for the first time.  Its origin is in the Hebrew “chesed,” re-stated in the … Continue reading

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Why Read This, When It Might Get Drowned Out?

With all the crowd-media swarming over us, there may be (as if) entirely too much “self-expression” going on. I took this while the vacuum was going, but you get the picture. This is how I feel, when I think that … Continue reading

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The Case for Empathy

Well, on the subject of “ask, ask, asking” for empathy, about which I was venting yesterday – the flip of that might be, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.  So maybe some persuasion is in order. What’s in it, … Continue reading

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Ask, Seek, Imagine, Live Long Enough

The “ask, ask, ask” I’m talking about, in the title of this entry, is a quote from Marshall Rosenberg.  I like it.  I hear it as in “seek and ye shall receive,” Matthew 7:7.  Actually Google tells me that a … Continue reading

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