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July 29, 2009

Seeing and Being Seen

“He made us realize that dance is a way of seeing as well as a thing to be seen.” – choreographer Margaret Jenkins, reflecting on the life of Merce Cunningham, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle I came home from campus this evening and, after rolling around on the floor with Mason a bit, […]

Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: art, Black Mountain College, Merce Cunningham

June 24, 2009

The Real World

the Dubai airport, complete with indoor palm trees It’s five in the afternoon in Brisbane, and about 10 AM here on this airplane. According to the flight information on the little screen embedded in the seat in front of me, I’m flying over Damascus right now, on my way to England. I spent a few […]

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work Tagged With: A Place to Go, Desmond Tutu, hope, Nelson Mandela, real world, Rotary World Peace Fellowship, Rotary World Peace Symposium, University of Queensland

April 25, 2009

Remembering Columbine

From random blog photos News stories about the ten year anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings seemed to jump out from every corner of the internet in the last week. The academic journal Psychological Review gave a whole issue to “Lessons of Columbine.” That experience is etched in our national memory, and though it’s […]

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work Tagged With: Camp Ferncliff, Columbine, Conyers, David Gill, healing, Jonesboro, Littleton, School shooting

March 1, 2009

How the World Changes

From random blog photos Deanna and Mason on the bus It’s Sunday in Brisbane, and yet another warm, clear day. The quick update is this: Mason turned four-months-old yesterday, we’ve been here for a month, all of the campus orientation events are through and classes start tomorrow. I’ve met all of the fellows, and they […]

Filed Under: Australia, Introduction, Observations, Peace Work Tagged With: bus, Canada, civil disobedience, logging, Marcel

December 9, 2008

Of Baby Bling and Basil

It is possible to buy some seriously ridiculous stuff for babies. A recent wander through Babies R Us led to the discovery of endless expensive entertainment options for newborns, including those roughly the age of ours, who is still working on vision at the six-inch range. Slightly more disturbingly, though, it also leads to the […]

Filed Under: Baby!, General Update, Observations

January 1, 2000

From deep in the Vault…

I was a “proto-blogger.”  That is to say that I started publishing “Notes From the Road” on my web site back in way 1997, laboriously chiseling them into my stone pda with a woolly mammoth tusk. Coincidentally, my first blog was published a few weeks before the word “weblog” ever appeared in print. These are […]

Filed Under: General Update, Introduction, Music News, Observations

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yellow cover page of book, You Are Changing the World Whether You Like It Or Not, by David LaMotte

Publishing with Chalice Press

May 2, 2022

Big news to share! I have signed a publishing deal with Chalice Press to publish a new edition of my book Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness.  The new book, with significant … Read More

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"The cover art is by artist Scott Neely, who doodled this guitar drawing while actually sitting at a concert of mine, listening to me play my instrumental song Shadows."
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