Todd Liebergen

“You Didn't Elevate Me, But You Helped Me Elevate Myself”: How A Dedicated Teacher Turned Into A Lifelong Friend - StoryCorps 6th grade math teacher Raymond Blanks speaks with his former 7th grade teacher and friend, Sean Lloyd, about how Sean inspired him to follow in his footsteps.

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My experience is that the transitional pain of building what we want will not be significantly different than the pain that we are already experiencing with the current system.
Society is more resilient than we believe it to be.
I'm ready to crash the system. Are you?

Note 74: crash the system
I’ve recently seen social media memes suggesting that the system would crash if people were prosecuted.
My experience is that beautiful mosaics are made from broken pieces. Let’s crash the system and build what we want from the broken pieces.

Prayer (or your tradition's equivalent) requests: for new beginnings to old things.

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... small enough that it doesn’t infringe on an individual’s healthcare or lifestyle or personal belief or many other things that are not within the domain of public concern.

Note 73: small government
I remain amazed at proponents of small government who believe that small government should be responsible for banning this personal lifestyle choice or banning that personal lifestyle choice.
If you want small government, that should include government ...

Prayer (or your tradition's equivalent) requests: for all of God's creation.

I'm grateful to recognize that closed options encourage looking for the openness around me.

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... their personal opinion may be no better or no worse than the personal opinion of other people around them?
I know that people can do these things if they choose to. Why don’t more people choose more regularly to engage in these healthy for society behaviors?

... information has been presented in the conversation. They will only temporarily discontinue using that belief in that particular conversation.
Why don’t people acknowledge that certain things are only their personal opinion and are not objective reality?
Why don’t people acknowledge that ...

Note 72: beliefs
My experience has been that many people believe what they say until it doesn’t advance their position in whatever conversation they are having at the time when they will temporarily discard it for that conversation only. They will not change their beliefs in light of whatever ...

I'm grateful for meaningful life transitions - beginning of life, middle life, end of life.

Prayer (or your tradition's equivalent) requests: for meaningful life transitions - beginning of life, middle life, end of life.

... power, I invite you to continue the journey of love that you are likely already on.

... journey. If you do not identify as a Christian and claim another higher power, I invite you to continue your higher power’s journey. Based on personal experience, I know that the journey is universal regardless of whether humans recognize that or not. If you do not identify with any higher ...

... Living Like Fools” by Tyler Staton, I am even more impacted by that perspective.
I look forward to discerning each next step that God is leading as I continue to strive to fulfill God’s will on earth as it already is in heaven.
If you identify as a Christian, I invite you to continue God’s ...

Note 71: first day of the rest of life
I’ve long lived with the perspective that today is the first day of the rest of my life.
As we conclude this year’s recognized Black History Month, I am even more impacted by that perspective.
As I embark upon a book study of “Praying Like Monks, ...

Prayer (or your tradition's equivalent) requests: for resources for the transitions of life.

Prayer (or your tradition's equivalent) requests: resources for the transitions of life.

I'm grateful for discernment of answers to prayer.

... couldn’t happen directly because the buttermaker didn’t need a haircut.
We have better systems in place than many years ago. Why is money still the primary value in our economy?

Note 70: money
Money was developed as a universal exchange mechanism many years ago when people wanted an easier way to acquire their goods and services than direct barter. It shortened the path of the barber bartering for horseshoes and then taking the horseshoes to barter for butter that ...