I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.
We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.
The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness. . . There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.
The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research
Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist. . . I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"