Caring for Your Introvert

Here’s a short but punchy feel-good essay for us introverts everywhere. We’re not socially dysfunctional; we’re just different.
From The Atlantic Monthly’s Jonathan Rausch in 2003 (full article here):
Caring for Your Introvert
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to [...]

Blind leading blind

The Canadian reluctance to face up to the ever-more-looming (and ever-more-catastrophic) consequences of climate change was pushed a little further last month. How reasonable men can deliberately ignore a broad scientific consensus because it does not align with their beliefs is … well, it’s no surprise at all. It has been the story of civilization [...]

Speeching to grads (1)

Here’s a zinger from the CharityFocus.org site: Paul Hawken’s commencement address in Portland. Thank you, Josie O, for sending it around.
Read it. Then deny it. Better yet, forget it in the rush of your busy, busy life. Continue living as though nothing in your life requires changing, or even a second thought. Drive your car [...]

Speeching to grads (2)

A more conventional pep talk to UBC arts grads this year, published in The Tyee. Save the world, kids — God knows it needs it, after your parents got through with it.
Dear Grads, Help Save Us!
Armed with an Arts degree, you can be a hero.
By Michael Byers
Published: May 27, 2009
[Editor's note: Political science professor Byers [...]