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a MUST READ by my friend Dr Michael Tobias~A KING’S SPEECH with UC-Berkeley’s Dr Malcolm Potts

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a MUST READ by my longtime friend, & collaborator, Dr Michael Tobias~A KING’S SPEECH with UC-Berkeley’s Dr Malcolm Potts (that could help save the world) ~ snb

(babies today) will grow up in an increasingly bipolar world – manic levels of consumption in the North and depressing levels of poverty, illiteracy and violence in the South. ~ Dr. Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor in the School of Public Health at UC-Berkeley [read MORE]

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The Divided Brain, Animated | Brain Pickings

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WOW ~ an excellent video/link posted by my brilliant mother about the book “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World,” by Iain McGilchrist. “McGilchrist talks about the science and philosophy of his work, and makes a passionate case for reprioritizing the right hemisphere.” Be patient, it may take a couple of viewings to absorb the full message ~ snb

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love this positive message~PEACE Begins on the the Playground

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“PEACE Begins on the the Playground” ~ i love this positive message!~sb
Mother Teresa said, “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.”
{could apply to anti-bullying rallies vs pro-playground peace movement}

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