Senseless yet meaningful
You don't have to wait to be told or paid to do something meaningful.Tijn Touber | October 2003 issue It all began in 1982 when Anne Herbert wrote the words ‘practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty’ on a placemat in a local Sausolito (California, United States) restaurant. Read More...
The old and the new Tijn
Tijn Touber asks where 'I' ends and where 'you' begins.Tijn Touber | October 2003 issue Twenty years after I had left, I was back in the country where I had spent a substantial part of my youth: America. I saw my old school and strolled along streets where I once played My old friends said I had Read More...
Beefeaters
Nirej Sekhon describes his experiences as a school boy from a traditional Indian family, who is introduced to the American beef culture.Nirej Sekhon | October 2003 issue Chicken-fried steak was among the more unyielding mysteries of my American boyhood. My school cafeteria served a vast array of Read More...
Fight for the commons
US innovators and creators join forces to reform copyright laws. Luke Disney | October 2003 issue The advent of the Internet has led to a boom in the free exchange of ideas and code among software developers. For other creators and innovators outdated copyright laws continue to thwart the Read More...
Soul power
Nonviolence is the weapon of the brave.Thomas Moore | October 2003 issue This month’s guest columnist: Thomas Moore, a former Catholic Monk and author of several books including Care of the Soul en Original Self. Peace is not the absence of conflict or aggression. It is the transformation of Read More...
The creative process
Whether in literature, engineering, information technology, or in love -- the creative process, according to Paulo Coelho, follows the same pattern: the cycle of nature.Paulo Coelho | October 2003 issue Whether in literature, engineering or information technology – or, indeed, in love – the Read More...
Trouble in the townships
Blacks have only gotten poorer since the ANC has been in power in South Africa. Bearing pickaxes and pliers, the poor of South Africa are learning that if they want to rebuild their nation they will have to do it for themselvesPaul Kingsnorth | October 2003 issue A young man in a red T-shirt Read More...